by fossilstore
8. July 2010 01:22
Science has conflicting opinions as to whether dinosaurs were ‘warm blooded’.
Some palaeontologists think that all dinosaurs were ‘warm-blooded’ in the way that modern birds and mammals are: in that that they had rapid metabolic rates.
Other scientists think it unlikely that any dinosaur could have had a rapid metabolic rate.
Some scientists think that some dinosaurs could have had warm bodies because of their large body size, as some large sea turtles do today.
It may be that some dinosaurs were warm-blooded. The issue is that it is very difficult and may be impossible to find evidence that unquestionably shows us what dinosaurs metabolisms were like.
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