[DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about NATURAL HISTORY - StudyStack [PAR] DINOSAURS DIED OUT IN THIS GEOLOGICAL ERA THAT MEANS "MIDDLE .... 
MANY NOW THINK THAT UNLIKE MODERN REPTILES, DINOSAURS ... THAT 
DINOSAURS WERE HOMEOTHERMIC, ALSO CALLED THIS, WARM BLOODED
. [DOC] [TLE] Why Dinosaurs Were Like Tuna, Great Whites, and Echidnas ... [PAR] Jun 12, 2014 ... Scientists used to believe that dinosaurs, like modern-day reptiles, were cold-
blooded ectotherms. That doesn't mean their blood was literally cold, but that they 
relied on the ... His team has now amassed data on the growth rates of 381 
animal ... There was probably variety, but I think many to most were... [DOC] [TLE] GEOL 104 Dinosaur Physiology [PAR] Aug 15, 2016 ... Old debate in dinosaur studies: were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? ... or 
at least more warm-blooded than typical modern reptiles. ... are endotherms does 
not mean that upright stance requires endothermy ... So the evidence 
unequivocally now points to homeothermy (however it was achieved). [DOC] [TLE] Physiology of dinosaurs - Wikipedia [PAR] Note: In this article "dinosaur" means "non-avian dinosaur," since most experts 
regard birds as an advanced group of dinosaurs. The physiology of dinosaurs 
has historically been a controversial subject, particularly thermoregulation. 
Recently, many new lines of evidence have been brought to bear on ... The 
earliest dinosaurs were almost certainly predators, and shared several... [DOC] [TLE] Evolution of mammals - Wikipedia [PAR] The evolution of mammals has passed through many stages since the first 
appearance of their synapsid ancestors in the late Carboniferous period. The 
most ancestral forms in the class Mammalia are the egg-laying mammals in the 
subclass Prototheria. By the mid-Triassic, there were many synapsid species that 
looked like ... This does not include the mammal-like reptiles, a group more 
closely related... [DOC] [TLE] Reptile - Wikipedia [PAR] Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, 
crocodilians, ... For this reason, many modern scientists prefer to consider the 
birds part of Reptilia as ... In the 18th century, the reptiles were, from the outset of 
classification, .... Unlike most previous definitions of Reptilia, however, Modesto 
and... [DOC] [TLE] Why and when did plesiosaurs become extinct? - The Plesiosaur Site [PAR] Jan 28, 2014 ... The -saur at the end of the name means 'lizard'. ... They stood upright, with their 
legs under the body as modern mammals do (think of a lizard with its' legs stuck 
out sideways). ... We are now discovering that many of them had feathers. ... 
Plesiosaurs were much more like modern reptiles than dinosaurs. [DOC] [TLE] HOT-BLOODED OR COLD-BLOODED? - Enchanted Learning ... [PAR] It used to be assumed that dinosaurs were cold-blooded like their reptile 
ancestors. ... to that of modern crocodilians (which are cold-blooded), and unlike 
that of birds ... However, Tim Rowe, Earl McBride and Paul Sereno think that the "
heart" is an ... This is because we now perhaps have evidence of warm-
bloodedness in... [DOC] [TLE] A brief history of dinosaur paleobiology - University of Bristol's ... [PAR] The first dinosaur bones must have been found in ancient times, but no record 
was ... In many cases, the fossils seemed to come from plants and animals with 
no ... of plants and animals, quite unlike anything now living, had existed in the 
past. .... He believed that modern reptiles were degenerate, the mere inferior 
relics of a... [DOC] [TLE] Were Dinosaurs Primitive, Cold-Blooded, Lumbering Beasts with ... [PAR] Dec 15, 1999 ... They argued convincingly that dinosaurs were not just big lizards, ... These 
modern lizards are all cold-blooded. Strictly their blood is not cold but, unlike 
birds and mammals, they ... in many respects, they were more advanced than 
lizards and crocodiles. ..... In technical terms, they were mass homeotherms. [DOC] [TLE] 5 Ancient Mammal-Like Reptiles - Some Of The Earliest Known ... [PAR] Aug

Question: Many now think that unlike modern reptiles, dinosaurs were homeothermic, meaning this
Answer: warm-blooded