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Re: Evidence of Warm Blooded Dinosaurs
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:55:07 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
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> Jeff Stembel wrote:
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> > Anyone interested in Dinosaurs should check this out:
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> > <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53547-2000Apr20.html>
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> > Pretty cool, huh? :)
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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.
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> best
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> LFB
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
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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 (25 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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