Were Dinosaurs Warm or Cold Blooded?

Discovery News ^ | Friday, December 4, 2009 | Jennifer Viegas

[BJClinton]

Nah you’d have to slow smoke them with mesquite and oak wood.

[GraceG]

They could have been warm blooded but not at 98.7F degrees.

Each degree you drop it the less food the animal needs.

[green pastures]

Be careful.

They've been know to tip over stone aged vehicles...

[GraceG]

[PIF]

Where are the feathers - latest reconstructions have them?

Sort of very old news - dinos were confirmed - or as close as it gets - to be warm blooded years ago based on distance of fosilized prints or running dinos.

[Conan the Librarian]

Asimov dealt with this issue in one of his short stories.

Guy invents time machine. Brings back Dino Eggs. Eggs hatch. Dino gets electrocuted. Taste better than chicken. Guy starts a chain of Dino restaurants.

Bakker wrote about this in the 1980s also.

[calex59]

Mmmmmmm yummy, Barbecued Chicken... all the more better.... One T-Rex would last a family for how long ? might have to share it with friends and family or the whole block.

Finally, enough breast meat to go around!

[4rcane]

its interesting theory. How did cold blooded dinosaurs become modern time warm-blooded animals. Maybe they weren’t cold blooded

[calex59]

Rather eat Brontosaurus as eating Carnivores the meat can be gamey.

Nahh, you just have to know how to handle the meat. You hang the T-rex for 4 days before skinning it and cooking. Velociraptors you only have to hang for 3 days.

[Harold Shea]

A pretty good story,A Statue to Father

In one book I`ve got,Buy Jupiter,love that pun

[goseminoles]

Unfortunately yes. I don’t expect to see any difference with Bobby gone. I’m not impressed with Jimbo at all. Bobby hasn’t really “coached” since Jimbo got there.

[xcamel]

You’re welcome..

;-)

[JoeProBono]

[BenLurkin]

Yes.

[SunkenCiv]

You’d need a really big paper bucket... and a lot, and I mean a *lot*, of cole slaw.

[SunkenCiv]

That’s one of those ideas that has been suggested; some of the fossils suggest hot-bloodedness, some don’t, and of course, there’s also been a bit of a change in the understanding of such states, i.e., that there are a few other options. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Back when he was the young up and coming. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

There was plenty for them to eat, but they couldn’t be fussy, kinda like any old wild animal today. :’)

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, really. Kinda cold blooded of the writer, to, oh no! I’ve done it again...

[SunkenCiv]

Sure, but just *try* to explain the skin of *that* nailed up in the trophy room.