Ability to Regulate Body Heat Emerged as Dinosaurs "Shrunk" (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Ability to Regulate Body Heat Emerged as Dinosaurs "Shrunk" (1 of 3)

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Dinosaurs evolved higher metabolism as they decreased in size to give rise to warm-blooded birds. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 1 Jan. 2020, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by E.L. Rezende at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile, and colleagues was titled, " Shrinking dinosaurs and the evolution of endothermy in birds."

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[Credit: Mauricio Alvarez]

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