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Comment on "evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs"
Journal article

Comment on "evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs"

Science, Vol.348(6238), p.982
2015

Abstract

Dinasours Animal Growth Metabolic Biology
Grady et al. (Reports, 13 June 2014, p. 1268) suggested that nonavian dinosaur metabolism was neither endothermic nor ectothermic but an intermediate physiology termed “mesothermic.” However, rates were improperly scaled and phylogenetic, physiological, and temporal categories of animals were conflated during analyses. Accounting for these issues suggests that nonavian dinosaurs were on average as endothermic as extant placental mammals.
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