Rediscovering the Age of Dinosaurs. Episode 17 Were Dinosaurs Warm-Blooded?
2025
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Paleontologists now debate the traditional assumption that dinosaurs were cold-blooded. Learn the basics of thermoregulation in vertebrates. Then, consider the range of evidence, relating to body type and size, heart function, locomotion, brain capacity, and body temperature, that points to the possibility that dinosaurs were metabolically closer to birds and mammals than to modern reptiles.
Author:
Imprint:
The Great Courses, 2022.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2025.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (23 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Notes:
Title from title frames.FilmIn Process Record.Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2022.
Performers:
Kristi Curry Rogers
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
BRN:
483588
Electronic access:
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