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