Who Would Win In A Fight, A Cold-Blooded Dinosaur Or A Warm-Blooded One?
Cold-Blooded A Crocodylus porosus or saltwater crocodile, the species of crocodile in which scientist Roger Seymour performed his metabolism studies. Laubarr on Wikimedia Commons One scientist hits upon a creative way to argue that dinosaurs were endothermic. Were dinosaurs "cold-blooded" or "warm-blooded"? Paleontologists still aren't sure. Now, one environmental scientist has painstakingly gathered the data to answer a related question: Given they were the same size, who would win in a fight, a cold-blooded dino or a warm-blooded one? A warm-blooded dinosaur would have definitely won, according to a series of fascinating experiments University of Adelaide scientist Roger Seymour conducted. Dinosaurs were therefore probably warm-blooded, Seymour wrote in a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE. They would have needed the power advantage of warm-bloodedness to compete as successfully as they did with mammals in Mesozoic times. Before we go on, let's just define warm-bloodedness and cold-bloodedness. Warm-blooded-or, scientifically speaking, endothermic-animals use sophisticated bodily...