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Re: Mesozoic - the heyday of life?
> Of course, nowadays we have humans, and humans have nuclear bombs, stealth
> bombers, and the like, but I'm thinking of non-human animals here. Mammalia
> has never produced anything on the scale of a Brachiasaurus or Tyrannosaurus
> Rex.
The shoulder and hip height of Indricotherium matches these of medium
sized sauropods; in other words, the Indricotherium body size is in
the range of sauropods (minus long neck and tail).
(See Alexander: Dynamics of Dinosaurs and other Extinct giants).
Pieter Depuydt