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Why Did Dinosaurs Get So Big? And Pterosaurs Were Such Amazing Fliers?

Why Did Dinosaurs Get So Big? And Pterosaurs Were Such Amazing Fliers?

Pterosaurs were so incredibly good at flying, that some exceeded by a factor of ten or twenty times the maximum mass a bird can fly with (according to the laws of engineering and aerodynamics). How did pterosaurs do this? By using a number of tricks birds never found, starting with a powerful jumping four legged take off (birds lift off with only two legs). The heaviest mammal ever,…

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Waning Dinosaurs, Victim Of Their Success In A Warm Climate?

Waning Dinosaurs, Victim Of Their Success In A Warm Climate?

The question of the disappearance of the dinosaurs is closely entangled with the deepest philosophical questions (and already were so at the time of the Ancient Greece or China, where as recently as a few years ago dinosaur bones were mistaken for dragon remains, and finished as soup…) Do smarts have to do with it? An old, all too old, idea is that, if dinosaurs had no gone extinct, mammals in…

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Watch "Dinosaurs were Mesotherms, neither warm nor cold …" on YouTube

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