Being big has its benefits. It means less competition for food and less trouble from predators. And these benefits undoubtedly served the sauropods, a clade of leaf-loving dinosaurs that just so happened to be the biggest creatures to ever traverse the earth.
But how did these humongous dinosaurs become so huge? A paper published in Current Biology provides new insight into this question. It reveals that at least three dozen lineages of sauropod evolved an enormous stature throughout the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
