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Were Dinosaurs Warm Or Cold-Blooded?


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...The researcers point out that one especially large dino called Sauroposeidon proteles, which weighed close to 120,000 pounds as an adult, may have had a body temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius).

Wow! That is perilously close to the point at which life-essential enzymes denature. How could a creature evolve to function that close to the edge?

"There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about." - Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” - Thomas Henry Huxley

>Paleontology is an evolving science.

>May your wonders never cease!

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