One additional question about Skull Island dinosaurs is
why they did not suffer the size reduction typical of originally large animals when
they colonize small islands, where food and other resources are scarce, as
asked by Silverberg (in Haber, 2005).
Does this biological rule apply to
dinosaurs? It does, and even though proof was ignored by the paleontological
community it was actually found long ago
by the tragic Baron Franz Nopcsa in Hateg, a place where dinosaurs could weigh
only an eighth of their mainland relatives weight.
Baron Franz Nopcs, circa 1913. Source: wikipedia.org |
To be absent from early
twentieth century charts, Skull
Island should have been
much smaller than Hateg with its 78 000 km2 (see Benton et al. 2010) and large
dinosaurs there would have needed to be much smaller.
Even if we imagine that the island in the 1933 film
appears tiny because it is not to scale, viable populations of animals as large
as dinosaurs require far larger landmasses: in brief, science does not support
the gigantic fauna of Skull Island (or in A. Conan Doyle’s Lost World
plateau that inspired it).
Source: https://burrunjor.com/page/7/ |
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