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"creeping" animals
"Jura" (archosaur@usa.net) writes:
>Truly an interesting question, but before
>one decides to pin this gigantism on
>endothermy, let's also remember that
>140 million years of evolution has yet to
>produce a bird that even comes in at a tonne,
>much less a multitonne one; and birds are
>twice as metabolically active as mammals.
Sorry. I forget.
What is the primary argument in support of the
notion that dinosaurs were >not< endotherms?
I have five high-school students camping out here,
so I'm not functioning at full capacity.
Many thanks,
John C. McLoughlin