Since the demise of the dinosaurs, no land vertebrate has matched them for size. Why? The answer may lie in the particular conditions prevailing in the Cretaceous period.
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Maurer, B. Big thinking. Nature 415, 489–491 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/415489a
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