Re: Bigger dinosaurs had warmer blood.

["Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Allan Edels wrote:
> > From Yahoo:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5166518.stm
>
> Bigger dinosaurs had warmer blood.
>
> The bigger a dinosaur was, the warmer its blood, a study of the big beasts' 
> fossil remains shows.
> [...]
> But as dinosaurs got bigger, they became less efficient at dissipating heat 
> and this helped to keep them warm anyway. This is known as inertial 
> homeothermy.
> According to the scientists' equation, the enormous sauropod Apatosaurus - 
> which at 13,000kg was among one of the biggest dinosaurs - had a body 
> temperature of just over 40C.

And the first thing that came to mind for me was how DID they shed heat?

If they had to move fast to escape a predator, that would have raised 
their temperature even more...

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