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

Because the big guys died out due to a lack of food. Over the course of the ice ages and the other phenomena, resources became scarce. Only those creatures whose needs were more realistic to the changing world around them were able to survive.

It’s way more complicated than that, but on another level, it really isn’t.