why is it impossible for animals to grow to certain sizes without collapsing under their own weight? If you just scale everything up 1:1, why can’t they just function normally at increased sizes?
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Capillary action, the force that pushes water up a straw above the regular water level. This and gravity dictates how tall trees can grow by limiting how much water and nutrients they can get from the ground. Similarly, the taller an animal is, the harder its heart has to work to push blood against gravity to the brain
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