@[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]linkfedilinkEnglish27•1 year agoThe vast majority were not! Larger animals are more likely to be fossilized, so our fossil record is biased toward larger animals.
minus-squareBiptalinkfedilink7•edit-21 year agoBut the largest herbivores and carnivore were far larger than anything we have today, or even had before humans killed the megafauna. Would animals have again become huge in a few tens of million years more?
minus-squareShalakushkalinkfedilink10•1 year agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale The largest animal ever known is currently on Earth, though endangered.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoOnly because we perfected killing them only few hundreds years ago. If we had more time they’d be dead too!
The vast majority were not! Larger animals are more likely to be fossilized, so our fossil record is biased toward larger animals.
But the largest herbivores and carnivore were far larger than anything we have today, or even had before humans killed the megafauna.
Would animals have again become huge in a few tens of million years more?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale The largest animal ever known is currently on Earth, though endangered.
Only because we perfected killing them only few hundreds years ago. If we had more time they’d be dead too!
🚨🚨🚨 Sorry Alan.
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