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(...) I saw that! It sort of confirms what palaeontologists have thought since about 1980. The fact that it's a plant-eater is more interesting, though--the suggestion existed that "only predators needed that level of energy." Hm. best LFB (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) A similiar article appeared in the L.A. Times. One would suspect that warm-bloodedness goes back at least till the dinosaur-mammal split given the plant-eater angle. Bruce (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) This prompted me to pull out one of my dinosaur books, and examine the dinosaur family tree. :) Anyway, if this chart is correct (it's ten years old, but I doubt its changed much), then I'd guess Dinosaurs and mammals both evolved (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Darn sacci-frasso-rassin' kids, stealin' my thunder...;) But yeah, that's the story. Why do crocodiles not have a high, warm-blooded metabolism? They don't need it, and have never needed it. They're archosaurs like monotremes are (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) the (...) dinosaur (...) I (...) don't (...) "Predatory (...) conflates (...) based (...) bird (...) thus (...) juvenile, (...) made (...) into (...) (which (...) yes. (...) to (...) to (...) suggests (...) and (...) our (...) as the (...) (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I've never heard of it, so I'll have to check this book out. :) (...) I find this hard to swallow. What happened to their skulls and the wishbone? It is true that some birds later evolved into Dinosaur-like creatures(1), but I wouldn't use (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That's just it--the distinction is unclear. The thought is that some late dromaeosaurs have archaeoptergyian skeletal features that really shouldn't have evolved independently unless the former were secondarily flightless. For example, what (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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