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You've Been Lied To About How And Why Dinosaurs Got So Damn Big, Here's The Truth

You've Been Lied To About How And Why Dinosaurs Got So Damn Big, Here's The Truth
No, there wasn't different air or gravity back then. Dinosaurs happened to be perfectly suited for growth on land in a way that mammals can never be.
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  1. Lee Harrington 2 weeks ago

    First point is for the copy writer:- They are not lies; nobody qualified ever suggested that gravity was different then and more oxygen was a serious hypothesis for the large sizes seen, subsequently falsified by the new hypothesis that there was probably less oxygen and that the dinosaurs probably had bird like lungs. Second point:- The birds did not evolve from "the" dinosaurs. They evolved from a specific group of dinosaurs called Theropods. For my money, this still does not explain the size thing as there were many species of small dinosaurs and the efficient bird like lungs would have been negated by the low oxygen atmosphere. A final couple of points:- Fast growth is nothing special. Cattle, for instance, grow from freshly born to, more or less, fully grown in a single year; The video maker does not seem to be aware that after the dinosaurs came a very long era, of massively huge mammals, of numerous different types, who definitely did not have bird like lungs.

    1. Lee Harrington 1 week ago

      Further to the above, the video maker makes the rookie mistake of believing that gravity is about mass alone. It mostly is, but the correct formulation is the total energy within a given volume. So for instance, the same mass but at different densities will cause a different gravitational effect. Also the same mass held in the same volume and as hot as the sun will have a greater spacetime warp effect than if it was held in the same volume but as cold as space. Here endith the lesson:)


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