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Dinos Weren’t Cold-Blooded

For years, scientists categorized dinosaurs as cold-blooded (ectotherms) or, more recently, somewhere in the middle (mesotherms). But new research looking at the chemistry of dinosaur eggshells reveals that these monsters of the Triassic and Cretaceous periods were warm-blooded (endotherms) creatures. Host Stefan Chin gives us more in this presentation from SciShow.

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