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holycrap ,

The vast majority were not! Larger animals are more likely to be fossilized, so our fossil record is biased toward larger animals.

Bipta ,

But the largest herbivores and carnivore were far larger than anything we have today, or even had before humans killed the megafauna.

Would animals have again become huge in a few tens of million years more?

octoperson ,

🐋

Shalakushka ,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_whale The largest animal ever known is currently on Earth, though endangered.

magikmw ,

Only because we perfected killing them only few hundreds years ago. If we had more time they’d be dead too!

billygoat ,
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🚨🚨🚨 Sorry Alan.

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