Los Dinos (Obscure reference)
FTA: (quote) The team went on to discover that maximum body size was linked to global temperatures and available land area. Colder temperatures favor the evolution of huge organisms, because they retain heat better than tiny critters as a result of their lower surface-to-volume ratio. Gigantic animals also need greater acreage to find enough food, and the end-Cretaceous extinction provided more open terrain for mammals to thrive and grow.
So as I suspected... what this really means is the huge “BANTHA” desert critters of Star Wars or the huge “DESERT WORMS” of Dune are ecologically bogus? I thought so.
(This is a first post, so please bear with me.)
LOL.