@[email protected] to Ask [email protected]English • edit-21 year agoWhy were dinosaurs huge?message-square29fedilinkarrow-up147arrow-down13file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•edit-21 year agoBeing big is advantageous as long as the animal is able to find enough food to sustain itself. Food was plentiful at the time, so dinosaurs grew quite large. In modern times, most mega fauna is gone because Humans hunted them to extinction.
minus-squaremagnetospherelinkfedilink4•1 year agoBig game hunters driving the giant lemur to extinction bothers me most, I think. I’d love to see a lemur the size of a gorilla.
minus-squareBiptalinkfedilink4•1 year agoEven before humans drove them to extinction they were nowhere near dinosaur sized though.
Being big is advantageous as long as the animal is able to find enough food to sustain itself. Food was plentiful at the time, so dinosaurs grew quite large.
In modern times, most mega fauna is gone because Humans hunted them to extinction.
Big game hunters driving the giant lemur to extinction bothers me most, I think. I’d love to see a lemur the size of a gorilla.
Even before humans drove them to extinction they were nowhere near dinosaur sized though.