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

You actually can scale up an elephant somewhat. Your average African Elephant is something like 4 metric tons and 3 meters tall. The very biggest on record were 10 tons and 4.2 meters.

But some extinct elephants are thought to have reached 5 meters and 22 tons.