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

The simple answer is they didn’t know. Math, as we know it, is only 2500 years old. Hell, the square-cube law only was put into effect around 500 years ago.

As Mark Twain said, “They did not know it was impossible, so they did it.”

The dinosaurs, having lived millions of years ago, were simply able to grow to such enormous sizes due to the simple fact that no one had yet come along to prove it is an impossible feat.