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To: editor-surveyor

All this talk of dinosaurs reminded me of a question I once asked to no end, what allowed them to grow so big?


67 posted on 07/06/2009 11:32:25 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: Old Professer
"what allowed them to grow so big?"

Most of the theories that I've heard involved higher oxygen content of the atmosphere, and plentiful food supply. Also most reptiles keep on growing all of their lives.

68 posted on 07/06/2009 11:39:50 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: Old Professer
what allowed them to grow so big?

Guess: warm climate and LOTS of available food.

101 posted on 07/07/2009 7:21:00 AM PDT by ElectricStrawberry (27th Infantry Regiment....cut in half during the Clinton years...)
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To: Old Professer

http://www.bearfabrique.org/Catastrophism/sauropods/biganims.html

Attenuated gravity seems the most plausible idea.


111 posted on 07/08/2009 12:29:25 PM PDT by FormerRep
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