Posts Tagged ‘warm blooded dinosaurs’

WFS News: Scientists Discover Potential Origin of the First “Warm-Blooded” Dinosaurs

@WFS,World Fossil Society, Athira, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev A new study led by researchers from UCL and the University of Vigo suggests that the ability to regulate body temperature, a characteristic shared by all modern mammals and birds, may have first developed among certain dinosaurs in the early Jurassic period, approximately 180 million years ago. […]

Fossilized eggshells reveal how warm blooded dinosaurs were

Scientists have used the fossilized eggshells of dinosaurs to estimate their body temperatures — and have revealed some surprises. Researchers have long debated whether dinosaurs were warm blooded like their living relatives, modern birds. In recent decades, the idea that dinosaurs — especially later, smaller, more bird-like dinosaurs – were warm blooded and active like birds, rather than more sluggish […]