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Bakker was right.. Dinosaurs were likely warm-blooded
Dinosaurs were likely warm-blooded
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sciencedaily/strange_science/~3/KeRIXhnndIo/150528140937.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
Dinosaurs grew as fast as your average living mammal, according to a new research article. The article is a re-analysis of a widely publicized 2014 Science paper on dinosaur metabolism and growth that concluded dinosaurs were neither ectothermic nor endothermic -- terms popularly simplified as 'cold-blooded' and 'warm-blooded' -- but instead occupied an intermediate category.