RE: And no, Creatards..."Adam and Eve" Did Not Ride Them!
May 8, 2015 at 5:26 pm
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2015 at 5:31 pm by Hatshepsut.)
(May 8, 2015 at 4:47 pm)Chuck Wrote: no, in the long run animals are not getting smaller. In fact if anything the average size of animals are getting bigger....Spectacularly large animals were always the extreme outliers in size...The average size of the land dwelling vertebrate might be the size of a small dog or cat....
An interesting prospect, if true. Call it "supersize me." I would have guessed an average vertebrate size of around a small trout, depending on whether one counts by species or by individual organism. We're almost all fish fry as a tribe; landlubbers an exotic rarity much less the Baluchatherium.
But I like your point about deep time. Those big critters never saw hair (scale?) of one another and were a long, long time apart. When our civilization gets flattened, its remains will doubtless occupy only a few millimeters in a compactified sedimentary pile.
