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?

In: 906

Answer 1

Not sure what happened with it, but there was a theory reported on that the very large dinosaurs would have necessarily been water-bound. See https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/hugest-dinosaurs-would-have-been-clumsy-on-land