Dinosaurs became giants — so why did they never become tiny?

ScienceDaily
Aug 9, 2026, 6:15 am395 ptsTop
Dinosaurs conquered the land at enormous sizes, but strangely, they almost never evolved into truly tiny animals. New research suggests that physiology alone can’t explain this missing miniature end of the dinosaur spectrum—and that early mammals may have been partly responsible. While dinosaurs kept…

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