The only horse-sized rabbits are botanical in nature.
Where’s my horse-sized rabbit? (Phys.org). There are some pretty big fossil rodents, but no big fossil rabbits. Leave it to Darwinists to explain anything and everything.
So why don’t we see rabbits rivaling the sizes of horses?
To answer this question, a research team led by Kyoto University’s Primate Research Institute investigated the fossil record and evolutionary history of lagomorphs. In a study in the journal Evolution, the team reports that larger herbivore competitors were one evolutionary constraint limiting rabbits’ size.
Why didn’t rodents have larger herbivore competitors that kept them small? The evolutionary explanations given in this article for keeping rabbits from growing as big as horses could be asked about rodents, but the storytellers are silent on that. What they do, instead, is bring in Wonderland characters – complete with illustrations!
“An ongoing debate in evolutionary biology concerns whether biological or environmental processes are more important in shaping biological diversity,” states Tomiya, “as characterized by the ‘red queen‘ and ‘court jester‘ hypotheses.”
“For some time, the court jester model—ascribing diversity to abiotic forces such as the climate—has been dominant, due to the difficulty of studying biological interactions in the fossil record.“
