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07-23-2013, 04:21 AM
Who Would Win In A Fight, A Cold-Blooded Dinosaur Or A Warm-Blooded One? (http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-07/who-would-win-fight-cold-blooded-dinosaur-or-warm-blooded-one)
One scientist hits upon a creative way to argue that dinosaurs were endothermic.
http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/articles/saltwater-crocodile.jpg
Cold-Blooded A Crocodylus porosus or saltwater crocodile, the species of crocodile in which scientist Roger Seymour performed his metabolism studies.
Were dinosaurs "cold-blooded" or "warm-blooded"? Paleontologists still aren't sure. Now, one environmental scientist has painstakingly gathered the data to answer a related question: Given they were the same size, who would win in a fight, a cold-blooded dino or a warm-blooded one?
A warm-blooded dinosaur would have definitely won, according to a series of fascinating experiments University of Adelaide scientist Roger Seymour conducted. Dinosaurs were therefore probably warm-blooded, Seymour wrote in a paper (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0069361) published in the journal PLOS ONE. They would have needed the power advantage of warm-bloodedness to compete as successfully as they did with mammals in Mesozoic times.
Who Would Win In A Fight, A Cold-Blooded Dinosaur Or A Warm-Blooded One? | Popular Science (http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-07/who-would-win-fight-cold-blooded-dinosaur-or-warm-blooded-one)
One scientist hits upon a creative way to argue that dinosaurs were endothermic.
http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/articles/saltwater-crocodile.jpg
Cold-Blooded A Crocodylus porosus or saltwater crocodile, the species of crocodile in which scientist Roger Seymour performed his metabolism studies.
Were dinosaurs "cold-blooded" or "warm-blooded"? Paleontologists still aren't sure. Now, one environmental scientist has painstakingly gathered the data to answer a related question: Given they were the same size, who would win in a fight, a cold-blooded dino or a warm-blooded one?
A warm-blooded dinosaur would have definitely won, according to a series of fascinating experiments University of Adelaide scientist Roger Seymour conducted. Dinosaurs were therefore probably warm-blooded, Seymour wrote in a paper (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0069361) published in the journal PLOS ONE. They would have needed the power advantage of warm-bloodedness to compete as successfully as they did with mammals in Mesozoic times.
Who Would Win In A Fight, A Cold-Blooded Dinosaur Or A Warm-Blooded One? | Popular Science (http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-07/who-would-win-fight-cold-blooded-dinosaur-or-warm-blooded-one)