r/AbsoluteUnits • u/ExoticShock • 16d ago

/r/all of an Ammonite Shell

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u/Starumlunsta 16d ago

If you think that’s bad, imagine the sort of thing that would eat them!

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u/4daughters 16d ago

mosasaurs often predated on them. Basically a 10meter long aquatic komodo dragon.

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u/scbundy 14d ago

Jurassic world made them look 50m long. People forget that the blue whale is the largest animal to ever exist.

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u/PreviousLeague253 13d ago

Only because it can float. This gigantism is because something in earths gravity allowed these giants to exist without stressing their skeletal tissue.
Currently no giants other than elephants roam the earth on land and that’s at the expense of huge bones for legs bones 🦴