Mammals shrink at faster rates than they grow: Research helps explain large-scale size changes and recovery from mass extinctions
Monday, January 30, 2012 - 22:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
It took about 10 million generations for terrestrial mammals to hit their maximum mass: that's about the size of a cat evolving into the size of an elephant. Sea mammals, such as whales took about half the number of generations to hit their maximum.