How come dinosaurs like the titanosaur grow to such large size, when animals like the elephant cant grow larger due to the square cube law?

Question

As far as i know, there arent bigger animals around today due to the square-cube law, and yet their were dinosaurs the size of whales on land?

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Answer 1

Scrolling through, it seems like a very important fact is missing. As humans migrated throughout the world, megafauna populations collapsed and then disappeared for late Pleistocene animals like giant ground sloths, glyptodon, mastodons, mamut, etc. These large animals were hunted for resources or killed to extinction because humans were prey animals to many of them. There were many more large land animals alive a little over 10,000 years ago than there are today.