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Bigger and bigger beasts
COPE’S rule, named for 19th-century American palaeontologist Edward Drinker Cope, came from his observation that animals in many groups tended to grow larger over time. Thus horses evolved from tiny Eohippus into deer-sized animals before reaching full size.
Now evolutionary biologist and blogger Craig McClain reports its vindication in a radically independent data set. At he observes that the 1954 Godzilla, in the , was 50 metres high. This year’s is 150 metres tall.
Such empirical observations…
