Why Aren't Modern Animals As Large As Dinosaurs?
Since the prehistoric age, we haven't seen any animals as big as dinosaurs. So just how did dinosaurs get so big? Watch new episodes of River Monsters, every Thursday at 9/8c on Animal Planet!...
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Hey, evolution, why aren't giant pets a thing yet, huh? If dinosaurs grew enough to fill a whole room, why can’t I have a big red dog the size of a house? Well, they would take room sized poops though. Hey everyone, Lissette here for DNews. Part of what captures our imagination about dinosaurs is just how huge some of them were. The American Museum of Natural History has a cast of a titanosaur that’s so big it doesn’t completely fit in the dinosaur wing. The 37 meter (122 foot) long behemoth’s head has to poke out towards the elevators. It’s got individual bones bigger than people. The very name of the group of dinosaurs it belongs to has the word TITAN in it. But when you start to consider the size of some of these extinct species, it can m...
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Hey, evolution, why aren't giant pets a thing yet, huh? If dinosaurs grew enough to fill a whole room, why can’t I have a big red dog the size of a house? Well, they would take room sized poops though. Hey everyone, Lissette here for DNews. Part of what captures our imagination about dinosaurs is just how huge some of them were. The American Museum of Natural History has a cast of a titanosaur that’s so big it doesn’t completely fit in the dinosaur wing. The 37 meter (122 foot) long behemoth’s head has to poke out towards the elevators. It’s got individual bones bigger than people. The very name of the group of dinosaurs it belongs to has the word TITAN in it. But when you start to consider the size of some of these extinct species, it can m...
