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We are a group of evolutionary paleobiologists obsessed with hoofy, horny, Cenozoic stuff 🐘🦣🦏 🦓 🦛🦒 🦌🐃 | based at @UAHes & @mfnberlin
May 11, 2023 • 18 tweets • 9 min read
1/How did #megaherbivores come into existence? How did they evolve into multitonne sizes? Today we present our results @ScienceMagazine
[science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…]

#macroevolution #brontotheres #paleontology #paleobiology

Here is a 🧵 on our new paper 📄 [1 of 18] Image 2/ The emergence of large animals is a recurrent feature in #evolution. Traditionally, this pattern has been understood as the natural outcome of an almost-universal adaptive advantage of being larger. This notion is generally known as ‘Cope’s rule’.