🦖 Ever wonder why dinosaurs were so colossal?🤔 From soft tissue pads on sauropod feet to the mysterious evolutionary paths of theropods, find out what might have led these magnificent creatures to such great heights.🦕🔬
from lighter bones to bird-like breathing, while gigantism also offered protection from predators, which also grew larger over time, and in the case of sauropods, allowed these dinos to reach different food sources.was crucial to allowing these lumbering giants to displace their enormous weight. Without such an adaptation, they likely would not have been able to grow so large.
“The acquisition of a developed soft tissue pad by the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic may represent one the of key adaptations for the evolution of gigantism that has become emblematic of these dinosaurs,” Jannel and his co-authorsThis alone does not explain gigantism in sauropods, but it is part of the route that allowed sauropods to reach such heights, Jannel says. “It’s a combination of adaptation, including the soft tissue pad, the bone structure, etc.
“They reached a certain level where they couldn’t get to bigger sizes, likely because their bodies were already supporting the extremes they had achieved,” Jannel explains.Tyrannosaurus Rex, Giganotosaurus“Almost all of these big theropods – some of which diverged from a common ancestor tens of millions of years earlier and had been evolving independently for a long time – always seem to cap out at about the same size,” Thomas Cullen says.
Like with sauropods, theropods likely became bigger and bigger for a variety of reasons, according to Cullen. His
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