The Dinosource
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The Dinosource
018 - Were Dinosaurs Warm-Blooded? (Apatosaurus and Corythosaurus)
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Episode 18
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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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