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From what I've read, dinosaurs were not warm-blooded due to their fast metabolism (endothermic) but due to their size and associated heat capacity (homeothermic
by tremon 8y ago
From what I've read, dinosaurs were not warm-blooded due to their fast metabolism (endothermic) but due to their size and associated heat capacity (homeothermic). That would have made them relatively less susceptible to starvation than present-day mammals, but given their size, they would still require plenty of food.
- sandworm101 8y agoThe big ones. Most were not the movie giants and so were probably much more coldish blooded. It is all a bit of an oversimplification. Some big fish (white sharks) can have internal temperatures a few degrees above water temp. There are all sorts of middle grounds between warm and cold blood.