Posted on 12/26/2014 7:25:45 AM PST by SunkenCiv
They might be fierce, but they’d run in terror from fruitcake.
There’s no single answer to the warm/cold blooded question, and thanks to the march of knowledge, there’s not even two answers anymore. Robert Bakker spearheaded a push for hot-blooded-ness in the dinos, but in nearly 50 years since it isn’t the dominant paradigm. As evidence has accumulated that has been interpreted to mean that the dinos are ancestral to chickens and other birds, the old dichotomy of hot vs cold among critters in general has broken down.
Dinosaur footprint found in Alaska national park
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1437383/posts
Ocean hot in days of dinosaurs, study finds
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1581106/posts
Haughton Astrobleme: A Mid-Cenozoic Impact Crater Devon Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago [39 million years ago]
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/237210205_Haughton_Astrobleme_A_Mid-Cenozoic_Impact_Crater_Devon_Island_Canadian_Arctic_Archipelago
Uh, yeah. "Hey Drill, the thing that's about to eat you is only 25 feet long. You should be grateful it isn't 40 feet long!" I gotta get another lawyer.
Totally warm-blooded. I mean check out the goosebumps on that thing!
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