Just How Small Can Mammals Get, And Why Aren’t There Any Mammals The Size Of Tiny Insects Or Even Microscopic Mammals?

Just How Small Can Mammals Get, And Why Aren’t There Any Mammals The Size Of Tiny Insects Or Even Microscopic Mammals?

Shutterstock People commonly ask about how large an animal can get, and the answer is that they can be pretty enormous, but there is a limit. There could never be an animal as large as Godzilla, for example. This is because of the cube-square law, which shows that volume increases at a faster rate than area. Once an animal gets too big, their volume is just too much to sustain. An animal the size of Godzilla would need to consume far too many ca…