Chapter 13: Warm-Blooded Dinosaurs?

Review Questions for Chapter 13

Introduction

• Reptiles are Hardly Cold-blooded
• Do Ectothermic Lizards Have Ecological Advantages?
• Examples of Heterothermy in Animals
• Lecture Notes: Physiological Ecology of Thermoregulation
• Lecture Notes: Why is thermoregulation important?
• Temperature Regulation

Dinosaurs with Feathers

• Lots of Feathered Dinosaurs at Louis Rey's Website
• See Excellent High Resolution Images of Feathered Running Therapod Dinosaur, Sinosauropteryx or Here A More Recent and Dramatic Discovery of a Feathered Dinosaur,
• A Current Cladogram Suggests that Feathers Evolved for Insulation, T. rex had Feathers, and the
  Question of Warm-blooded Dinosaurs is Not "If" but "When."

Doubts about Endothermy

• Turbinates vs. Hot and Cold Running Dinosaurs
• Cold-blooded Dinosaurs Ahead by a Nose
• Implications for Dinosaur Physiology from Brain/Body Allometry

  
  
  

The Answer?

• Were Dinosaurs Hot-Blooded or Cold-Blooded?
• A Very Complete Overview of the Controversy by Bristol Paleobiology Students
• More Thoughts on this Topic at Knowledge Adventure or Ed-Online or Museum Victoria

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