Dinosaur theories.

["Todd Hensley, Programmer/Analyst; SSDT" <HENSLEY@nwoca.ohio.gov>]

    Hi everybody,
    
    I am by no means a dinosaur expert, but I've been interested in them
    since I was a little kid.  This list has been highly informative and
    entertaining, so first I'd like to thank everyone who's been
    contributing to it.

    There is something that has been puzzling my amateur mind for quite
    some time.  There seem to be two big theories in the dinosaur world,
    the first being that dinosaurs were cold-blooded and closely related to
    reptiles, and the second being that they were warm-blooded and closely
    related to birds.  Are there any scientists arguing on behalf of both
    theories?  That is, that some dinos were cold blooded and some were
    warm blooded?  Has anyone tried to argue that some dinosaurs could be
    related to mammals?  Triceratops always looked suspiciously like a
    rhino to me, but I'm sure there are enough skeletal differences to blow
    that silly theory out of the water.

    Thanks for the info.

    Todd Hensley,  hensley@nwoca.oecn.ohio.gov
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