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Do Thunderbeasts Prove Giant Animals Are Inevitable?
Season 6
Episode 6
The journey the thunder beasts took to reach such mega proportions from such humble beginnings forces us to ask an important question, one that paleontologists have been asking for more than a century: from an evolutionary perspective, is bigger always better?
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