• Pipoca@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That enabled animals to grow as large as they did, and it enabled massive pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus to exist.

    I wasn’t responding to comparing dinosaurs to pterosaurs. I was responding to the part about them being big because of the atmosphere.

    There’s a number of reasons we don’t have brontosaur-sized elephants. The differences in the atmosphere explains far less than hyper-efficient lungs and light bones.