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To: Junior
Microscopic bone analysis of therapods indicate they were warm blooded and had feathers.

This I have to hear! Please tell us how they found out from bones that dinosaurs were warm blooded!

1,044 posted on 03/20/2002 7:37:30 PM PST by gore3000
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To: gore3000
The bones of warm-blooded animals have more passages for blood vessels than those of cold-blooded critters. Therapod dinosaur bones have lots of passages for blood vessels (like birds or mammals) when compared to turtle or lizard bones, which have fewer passages for blood vessels.
1,055 posted on 03/21/2002 1:42:38 AM PST by Junior
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