bascule Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4532608.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mokele Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 I love the false dichotomies. Either it was warm-blooded or it wasn't, ingoring the fact that monotremes and marsupials do not have full control over their body temperatures, which it turn proves the intermediates can exist. If it had a growth method like a reptile, it must have had a reptilian metabolism. Never mind that extant reptiles have a wide range of metabolisms and all show this growth method, and that nothing *specificially* links this sort of growth to ecotthermy. It's interesting, but I think everyone leaps to conclusions too quickly about these sorts of things. I strongly suspect the metabolic diversity actually present in dinosaurs would shock even the most imaginative paleobiologist. Mokele Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkepticLance Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 A view of dinosaur temperature control appearsed in New Scientist. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9523?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn9523 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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