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To: SunkenCiv

It is not too hard a stretch of the imagination for the smaller, in relative terms, dinosaurs to be warm blooded but I remember seeing a show calculating the amount of food a warm blooded sauropad, like Apatasauraus, would need to eat and it seemed unlikely they could eat that much.


15 posted on 12/04/2009 2:00:34 PM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

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

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


22 posted on 12/04/2009 2:15:39 PM PST by GraceG
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To: C19fan

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


38 posted on 12/04/2009 4:58:14 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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