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Im not sure if this is an accurate correlation, but i recall hearing; The reason for mega flora and fauna (really large animals and plants) was due to a much h
by samstave 6y ago
Im not sure if this is an accurate correlation, but i recall hearing;
The reason for mega flora and fauna (really large animals and plants) was due to a much higher % of oxygen in the atmosphere....
However, on the conspiracy spectrum, there was this russian kid who supposedly channeled living previously on mars who states that they had really really long life spans, but it is the fact that life on earth consumes much more oxygen, and it is oxygen that reduces overall life span - which is interesting when rated to vedic ancient books which talk of lives being ~900 years plus....
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So the documentary i linked to states that hummingbirds have developed a hemoglobin that absorbs oxygen at even 6% which is the same as 40,000 feet - as compared to 21% at sea level....
https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/super-hummingbirds-full-episode/14586/ https://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/super-hummingbirds-full-epis...
- lawlessone 6y agoWe don't have megafauna today because our ancestors ate them. Mammoths, Giant Australian birds, giant groundsloths, all disappeared when we showed up.
- koheripbal 6y agoYes - but there were larger animals (including huge insects) millions of years prior to that - and many scientists suspect it's due to higher amounts of O2.
- phonypc 6y agoIIRC, oxygen concentration is theorized to be a factor in the large size of carboniferous insects only. Not relevant to e.g. large reptiles in later periods.