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How do we know its body temperature was 97 degrees, and simply not the environment was 97 degrees?
by laweijfmvo 18d ago
How do we know its body temperature was 97 degrees, and simply not the environment was 97 degrees?
- pixl97 18d agoWhat environment would stay at a constant 97 degrees?
- surgi 18d agoEurope this summer? /jk
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- cwmma 18d agoIf it was environmental then you'd expect it to fluctuate over time, but they also checked it against an animal they knew to be cold blooded, if it was environmental you'd expect them to be the same, but that animal was calculated by the same method to be colder.
- altcognito 18d agoThey compared against crocodilian teeth and those teeth were at a different temperature. Crocodilian teeth are known to be at a similar temperature to their environment because they are known to be cold blooded. It is correct to say that we don't know they were warm blooded, just that their body temps were likely the given observed temperature.
- laweijfmvo 15d agoi assume this means crocodiles from the same time period?
- b0rtb0rt 18d agowe don’t, all of this dinosaur stuff is bullshit
- lirolero 17d agothat's retarded
- hulitu 15d agoThey measured it. Thanks to AI, we can measure things today which would not have been possible 2 millions years ago. /s