Re:On being the right size (1928)
by jhart3333 on Monday October 14, 2013 @01:43AM
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Dinosaurs were not cold blooded as it turns out. They live on today as birds.
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We don't actually know that. And part of the reason is "dinosaurs" is such a broad term, encompassing so many species of many millions of years. I would think it's mostly likely that some dinosaurs were cold-blooded and some warm-blooded.
I have also attended a talk that suggested that some dinosaurs almost certainly didn't fit the warm-blooded or cold-blooded model, and that despite mechanically being cold-blooded, their large size alone kept them warm. So in many ways those ones were practically warm-blooded.