Re: Life's scale reduction since the Dinosaurs

["Cunningham, Betty" <bcunning@nssi.com>]

     >We all know that the Dinosaurs were big. What is not so generally 
     >realized is that life has been reducing in size over periods of 
     >hundreds of millions of years. 
>There can be no doubt that this size reduction has taken place. After the 
>extinction of the Dinosaurs a range of Supergiant Mammals  approaching 
>the size of the smaller Dinosaurs evolved. These Supergiant Mammals were 
>superseded by Giant Mammals which were larger 
>versions of the Mammals alive today. These Giant Mammals have in 
>their turn died out to be replaced by a smaller scale of life.
     
Modern Blue whales are bigger than anything we've ever found, ever, in whatever 
time period.

-Betty Cunningham