Did dinosaur blood run hot or cold? Both, according to a new study

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Dinosaurs were initially cold-blooded, but global warming 180 million years ago may have triggered the evolution of warm-blooded species, a new study found.

Were dinosaurs warm-blooded like birds and mammals or cold-blooded like reptiles? It’s one of paleontology’s oldest questions, and gleaning the answer matters because it illuminates how the prehistoric creatures may have lived and behaved.

They probably would have overheated if they were hot-blooded.” What’s more, he added, the amount of plant matter they would have needed to consume if they were warm-blooded would have been unsustainable. “ were living in herds and we know that each one of them was the equivalent of 10 African elephants. they would just destroy plant life. It makes more sense, as living animals, for them to be more cold-blooded.

 

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