Sunday, June 26, 2011

Big Dinos Stayed Cool

http://news.discovery.com/animals/dinosaurs-sauropods-body-temperature-110623.html

Sauropod dinosaurs, the enormous plant-eating dinos with long tails and necks, had body temperatures ranging from 96.3 to 100.8 degrees Fahrenheit -- making them as warm as most mammals -- including people. Because body temperature usually rises the larger an animal gets, the findings, published in the latest issue of Science, suggest huge sauropods had mechanisms for cooling themselves off.

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