How the f**k did dinosaurs get so big?

[techs]

The answer is simple. Humans were slow and tasty.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: nick1985
They ate a lot of poontang pie! YEAH BABY!

<momma joke>Didn't know your momma was that old</momma joke>

 

[isasir]

God wasn't as good at multitasking back then, so he many fewer, bigger creatures.

 

[soydios]

Natural selection decided that bigger was better. But, natural selection eventually was proved wrong, and thus they aren't here anymore.

Homo sapiens will go extinct at some point, too. Meh.

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: jandrews
Millions of years of evelution as well as a very large amount of abundant foodsources. I think the temperature of the planet in general was warmer in those times and the land masses were more connected. Vegetation and meat would have been plentiful and without many winters and all that time the elite animals would mate producing larger and larger creatures. For example, humans used to have a much smaller average height only a few hundred years ago, I would be curious to see what another 1000 years brings.

WAIT A MINUTE! You mean to tell me that the earth was actually warmer then than it is today?????? gasp.......

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: yowolabi
Too much soda.

+1 kudos points

 

[alkemyst]

wait a minute...I did some indepth research on google and wikipedia and found out it's because their were no emo kids to scare.

 

[NeoV]

a lot of crappy answers in here!

The bottom line is that we just don't know how they got so big.

As someone stated earlier, reptiles grow their entire lives - that'd be great, but dinosaurs are not reptiles, and they grew much faster than reptiles do. From fossil records, we know that dinosaurs reached full size in very short periods - for example an Apatosaurus weighed approx 25 tons at 15 years. We don't know why dinosaurs grew as quickly as they did, and we don't know why they were able to get so big.

There were a few mammals that grew to very large sizes, but most of them didn't survive into modern times.

 

[HopJokey]

<Carl Everett>
Dinosaurs are not real!
</Carl Everett>

 

[FoBoT]

steroids

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: NeoV
a lot of crappy answers in here!

The bottom line is that we just don't know how they got so big.

As someone stated earlier, reptiles grow their entire lives - that'd be great, but dinosaurs are not reptiles, and they grew much faster than reptiles do. From fossil records, we know that dinosaurs reached full size in very short periods - for example an Apatosaurus weighed approx 25 tons at 15 years. We don't know why dinosaurs grew as quickly as they did, and we don't know why they were able to get so big.

There were a few mammals that grew to very large sizes, but most of them didn't survive into modern times.

Well first to figure if this is not a crappy answer or not, I'd like to see the proof you worked out on dinosaurs not being reptiles. Second is this all dinosaurs or just certain ones.

 

[NeoV]

I should have technically said "not like any reptiles alive today"

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: NeoV
I should have technically said "not like any reptiles alive today"

hmm try again, nice try at a save though.

 

[randay]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: Eli
I think a better question would be how did modern plants and animals get so small....

something that caused a mass extinction. my guess is a meteor followed by months of darkness. the smaller animals had a better chance of surviving.

more like a flood!

 

[txrandom]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
God made them that way? Oh wait, God wasn't invented until about 2000 years ago. Nevermind...

I didn't realize that God = Jesus.

 

[alkemyst]

<derailed thread>Here we go...extinction theory and creationism...grabbing some beer, chips and a chair.</derailed thread>

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: NeoV
a lot of crappy answers in here!

The bottom line is that we just don't know how they got so big.

As someone stated earlier, reptiles grow their entire lives - that'd be great, but dinosaurs are not reptiles, and they grew much faster than reptiles do. From fossil records, we know that dinosaurs reached full size in very short periods - for example an Apatosaurus weighed approx 25 tons at 15 years. We don't know why dinosaurs grew as quickly as they did, and we don't know why they were able to get so big.

There were a few mammals that grew to very large sizes, but most of them didn't survive into modern times.

Exactly.

If they evolved that way over millions of years through survival of the fittest or natural selection, why aren't there full grown fossil generations found of each of the same species at significantly different sizes, as the same species grew over time through these processes. Cross-breeding can probably explain some of it, but certainly not all of it.

A brachiosaurus didn't walk out of a primordial soup to suddenly grow to into a 25 ton animal, so where are the fossils of it being full grown at 1 meter, or 3 meters etc (full grown they eventually were 22 meters long.)

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: jjsole

Originally posted by: NeoV
a lot of crappy answers in here!

The bottom line is that we just don't know how they got so big.

As someone stated earlier, reptiles grow their entire lives - that'd be great, but dinosaurs are not reptiles, and they grew much faster than reptiles do. From fossil records, we know that dinosaurs reached full size in very short periods - for example an Apatosaurus weighed approx 25 tons at 15 years. We don't know why dinosaurs grew as quickly as they did, and we don't know why they were able to get so big.

There were a few mammals that grew to very large sizes, but most of them didn't survive into modern times.

Exactly.

If they evolved that way over millions of years through survival of the fittest or natural selection, why aren't there full grown fossil generations found of each of the same species at significantly different sizes, as the same species grew over time through these processes. Cross-breeding can probably explain some of it, but certainly not all of it.

A brachiosaurus didn't walk out of a primordial soup to suddenly grow to into a 25 ton animal, so where are the fossils of it being full grown at 1 meter, or 3 meters etc (full grown they eventually were 22 meters long.)

before they were brachiosaurs, they were something else. i don't know what, but i don't don't that someone knows.

 

[smack Down]

Originally posted by: NeoV
a lot of crappy answers in here!

The bottom line is that we just don't know how they got so big.

As someone stated earlier, reptiles grow their entire lives - that'd be great, but dinosaurs are not reptiles, and they grew much faster than reptiles do. From fossil records, we know that dinosaurs reached full size in very short periods - for example an Apatosaurus weighed approx 25 tons at 15 years. We don't know why dinosaurs grew as quickly as they did, and we don't know why they were able to get so big.

There were a few mammals that grew to very large sizes, but most of them didn't survive into modern times.

The large mammals didn't survive because people killed them.

I blame stupidity. The Dinos where to stupid to come up with anyway to avoid getting eaten. So the only dinos that didn't end up as food where the ones to be to eat. Unlike with the Big mammals human are smart enough to figure out ways to take them down despite there size advantage.

 

[alkemyst]

Where does Grimlock fit in to this?