References

• Comparison of ornithiscian dinosaurs with modern reptiles, looking at who may have been “warm blooded”
• Discussion of whether dinosaurs were warm blooded from 1990
• Sharks keep their eyes warm
• Did you know that sloths don’t have a steady body temperature? Weird but true.
• Mark Witton has written an excellent blog post on the operating temperatures of animals, and talks about how large animals are more concerned with shedding heat than generating it
• Looking for our series on the Bone Wars? Look no further!
• Big dinos had difficulty shedding heat, not keeping it
• Eagle et al’s paper looking at fossilized teeth to determine the temperature at which they were formed
• A follow-up paper by Eagle doing more of the same, but for different fossils
• And further replication of these results

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