Researchers have shown that the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago paved the way for mammals to get bigger (about a thousand times bigger). Mammals grew from a maximum of about 10 kilograms when they were sharing the earth with dinosaurs to a maximum of 17 tons afterward.
The maximum size of mammals began to increase approximately about 65 million years ago and slowly died down about 25 million years ago. The largest mammal that ever walked the face of earth -- Indricotherium , a hornless rhinoceros-like herbivore that weighed approximately 17 tons and stood about 18 feet high at the shoulder -- lived in Eurasia almost 34 million years ago.
In conclusion you can obviously see that after mammals didn’t have to compete with the dinosaurs for survival they thrived and grew to humungous sizes all over the world.
Really nicely written and explains but, i dident understand, from elephants dinosaurs became? Right? Anyways wow! =)
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