Multimedia Release 7-Jan-2020

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

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Ability to Regulate Body Heat Emerged as Dinosaurs "Shrunk" (3 of 3) — image: 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." view more

Credit: [Credit: Mauricio Alvarez]

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