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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Same for dinosaurs. They got so big because more oxygen, couldn't survive today.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There are dinosaurs right outside my window right now. I think they might be nesting, one is collecting sticks while the other is hopping across the lawn to look for worms.

And by the way, same as the extant dinosaurs, many of the extinct ones had an extremely optimized pneumatized breathing apparatus that would likely allow many to survive today. Maybe not the really big ones though.