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To: Candor7
We still do not know what made them grow so big although there are theories. Today’s reptiles are so much smaller by comparison.

I think they say it might had to do with the high levels of oxygen at the time.

27 posted on 09/14/2018 11:53:24 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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The Impossible Dinosaurs - Megafauna and Attenuated Gravity
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Posted by Swordmaker

It is a fairly easy demonstration that nothing any larger than the largest elephants could live in our world today, and that the largest dinosaurs survived ONLY because the nature of the world and of the solar system was then such that they did not experience gravity as we do at all; they’d be crushed by their own weight, collapse in a heap, and suffocate within minutes were they to...

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34 posted on 09/14/2018 3:57:28 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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