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    Dinosaur metabolism neither hot nor cold, but just right: Growth rates suggest answer to long debate: Dinosaurs were "mesothermic," like today's tuna and echidna
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    1. dbatista 07 Oct 2024
      : They could easily outcompete otherreptiles, which were lethargic ectotherms.And by getting big quickly, they occupiedthe large-animal niches, and prevented thesmall, energy-hungry endothermic mammals from getting bigger thems

      how the dino's outcompeted other animals

    2. dbatista 07 Oct 2024
      : mesotherm

      what the inbetween state is called

    3. dbatista 07 Oct 2024
      He and his colleagues tackled the problemby examining the relationship between ananimal's growth rate—how fast it becomesa full-sized adult—and its resting metabolicrate (RMR), a measure of energy expenditure

      How they went about solving the problem

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