Thread:Paleoboy/@comment-22439-20141029005900/@comment-47205-20150701065233

I'm not asking you to justify it (another explanation, for example, could be that a platypus is fairly small, while it can be reasonably assumed that an average Spore creature is close to human size, so that unlike the Al Packa, Anatinus - along with many other Maxis creations based on small animals - is made larger than its real-life counterpart for artistic reasons). I'm just pointing out that it's nowhere near conclusive, so you can feel free to add the information to the wiki just as long as it's kept out of the main namespace.