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Big Prehistoric Mammalian Herbivores ~

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01-29-2018, 04:33 PM

(01-29-2018, 02:22 PM)brotherbear Wrote:
(01-29-2018, 01:48 PM)Spalea Wrote: @brotherbear :

With a 19,50 meters-long body, your monster hippo would be 6-7 meters height, with a full body, absolutely not slender like the sauropod dinosaurs' one. 350-360 tons ? Impossible to be alive with such mensurations, unless he lives into water all his life long.

A typo you suspect?

Yes. I try to mentally reproduce an hypothetic 19,50 meters long and 6-7 meters height hippo, and yes I deduce this weight. It seems quite impossible to me for an animal which would walk on the ground. We fall on the ancient models of sauropod dinosaurs (see the old brontosaurus' descriptions) we they are believed to live constantly into the water because of their weight. Except that your animal is even much heavier.

But if somebody can contradict me... No problem !
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RE: Big Prehistoric Mammalian Herbivores ~ - Spalea - 01-29-2018, 04:33 PM
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