Dinosaurs May Have Been Neither Warm-blooded Nor Cold-Blooded

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 13, 2014 @08:38AM from the bbq-sauce-for-blood-like-americans dept.

An anonymous reader writes An article published in Science (abstract) points to the possibility that dinosaurs were mesotherms more akin to modern Tuna. Their internal temperature would have been warmer than their surrounding environment, conferring on them the ability to move more quickly than any ectotherm ("cold blooded" animal), but wouldn't have been constant or as warm as any endoderm ("warm blooded" animal). Their energy use and thus their necessary food intake would have been greater than an ectotherm, but much less than an endotherm. In order to arrive at this possibility, bone growth rings in fossilized bone were used to establish growth rates and then compared to modern ectotherms and endotherms.

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Interesting article by Gothmolly · 2014-06-13 08:42 · Score: -1, Troll

This is a very relevant study.
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They were cooooool-blooded by NotDrWho · 2014-06-13 08:59 · Score: -1, Troll

Just like Gary and Mike on WZXR, 103.5, THE BOMBER SQUAD!!

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Re:paleontology research funding by Anonymous Coward · 2014-06-13 09:08 · Score: 0, Troll

Yes. The USA is a shithole. It needs repeating in every article.