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Why Were There No Tiny Non-Avian Dinosaurs? Mammals May Have Been to Blame


Dinosaurs evolved into some of the largest animals ever to walk the Earth, but a new mathematical model suggests that early mammals may have crowded them out of the ecological niches reserved for the smallest creatures.

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