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Hank gives a quick run-down of the reasons scientists think the land mammals of today are nowhere near the size of the largest sauropods. Some of them might surprise you! If you liked this video, check out more videos about natural history and paleontology on SciShow's sister channel, Eons: https://www.youtube.com/eons Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/artist/52/SciShow -- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com SOURCES http://news.discovery.com/animals/how-dinosaurs-got-so-big-120131.html http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/dinosaurevolution/a/bigdinos.htm http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19771-why-mammals-grew-big--and-then-stopped.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=land-size-limits-body-size http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0507/resources_who.html http://earthsky.org/earth/felisa-smith-why-mammals-havent-out-sized-biggest-dinosaurs http://www.sciencemag.org/content/330/6008/1216.abstract http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/mammals-vs-dinosaurs http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/06/when-mammals-ate-dinosaurs/ http://svpow.com/2013/02/19/personal-milestones-publishing-the-ph-d http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/02/a_snake_the_size_of_a_plane.html http://www.dinodatabase.com/dinorcds.asp http://voices.yahoo.com/indricotherium-largest-land-mammal-ever-237482.html http://science.kqed.org/quest/2010/03/17/the-largest-land-mammal-that-ever-lived/ http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/25/dinosaur-reproduction-not-ancient-gravity-made-sauropods-super-sized/ http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/hot-weather-makes-mammals-smaller-%E2%80%94%C2%A0what-does-mean-global-warming http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=427 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaurs/How-to-Build-a-Giant-Dinosaur.html http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0028442 http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/mammals/cetaceans/bluewhale.htm