New evidence for warm-blooded dinosaurs

Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 19:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A scientist in Australia has shown new evidence that dinosaurs were warm-blooded like birds and mammals, not cold-blooded like reptiles as commonly believed. The researchers argues that cold-blooded dinosaurs would not have had the required muscular power to prey on other animals and dominate over mammals as they did throughout the Mesozoic period.

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