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"Squishy Joints" May Have Helped Dinosaurs Grow To Giant Sizes
benonemusic writes "A new study in the journal PLOS ONE suggests that dinosaurs reached gigantic proportions relative to mammals because of differences in their cartilage, making their joints squishier and able to sustain greater amounts of force. Other factors contributed to dinosaurs' larger sizes, including their lighter, air-sac-filled skeletons, and some researchers point out that the sizes of some dinosaurs and mammals were approximately equal, so anatomical differences between cartilage in dinosaurs and mammals may not directly explain why some dinosaurs grew to larger sizes."
Not necessarily. "Why" could just be a radioactive mutation that happened to turn a lizard into godzilla. Mark my words, Tokyo tower will fall by the 2020 Olympics due to mutant lizards. I'm sorry though, if that were to actually happen I would not feel one ounce of sadness, I would be laughing my ass off from the irony and once that's out of my system then I would presumably feel bad for the victims and donate money to the "aaah! kore wa goduzira desu" foundation.