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  • Was weaker gravity responsible for large dinosaur size?

    How did the sauropods—the long-necked dinosaurs like Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus, and Diplodocus that grew to be the largest land animals that ever lived—get so huge? The full answer to that question is complicated and interesting, involving a lot of science I don’t know. Come to think of it, the true answer involves a lot of physics I…

    Matthew R. Francis

    February 25, 2013
    Astronomy, Physics, and Related Fields
    dinosaurs, gravitation
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