Eli5 why most animals today are small compared to prehistoric animals we’ve discovered?

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Feels like there was a lot more megafauna in prehistoric earth than there are today

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More oxygen was in the atmosphere. So creatures could grow larger. This explains s dinosaurs.

In the last 100 years humans hunted and killed nearly all megafauna. They were large, slow, lots of meat, per kill. So they were easy prey for humans.

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