The English word for dinosaurs is "dinosaur", which means "scary lizard". So, are they like lizards or snakes, warmer animals?
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Were dinosaurs thermostatic or thermostatic? This question has been debated by scholars.
At the beginning of the study, scholars believed that dinosaurs, like today's reptiles, belonged to a relatively inferior animal, a temperate animal. However, with the deepening of the study of dinosaurs, some scholars have questioned the view that dinosaurs are thermotropic animals. As we all know, most cold-blooded animals have the characteristics of hibernation, do dinosaurs also need to hibernate? So can dinosaurs with large bodies find caves of the right temperature and size? How do dinosaurs accumulate energy before hibernation? How to solve the security problem? ......
A group of dinosaurs launched a fatal ambush at a plant-eating prismatic dragon several times its size.
In 1996, a fossil of a dinosaur with a fibrous structure was discovered in Liaoning, China, and this dinosaur was named the "Chinese Dragon Bird". After years of research, paleontologists have shown that small theropod dinosaurs are actually related to birds. At the same time, dinosaurs also rely on incubating eggs to "pass on the generations", and the incubation of eggs requires a higher temperature of the body and keeps it constant. Therefore, many scientists believe that dinosaurs are thermostatic animals.
However, many scientists are opposed. Because dinosaurs' brains are relatively small and their bodies are particularly large, can their brains control the body's complex metabolism and regulate changes in body temperature?
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Fossils of Chinese ornithischiosaurs
First of all, let's understand what is a thermostatic animal and what is a thermostatic animal. Warm-temperature animals, also known as cold-blooded animals, they have a significant feature, that is, they can not control their body temperature, their body temperature is generally with the change of ambient temperature and change, so called warm animals. Snakes, lizards, frogs and other animals are all warm animals. But thermostatic animals are different, they have a mechanism that can regulate body temperature, can control their body temperature, when the ambient temperature changes, the system in their body will operate in time to adapt to this change, to maintain the relative stability of body temperature, so it is called a thermostatic animal. We humans are thermostatic animals.
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Some scientists have also made the curious idea that some dinosaurs belonged to thermostatic animals, such as theropod dinosaurs, while most dinosaurs belonged to thermostatic animals. Scholars who hold this view believe that in the era of dinosaur life, the weather was very hot, dry, and there was no obvious change of seasons, and the climatic conditions were similar to those in the equatorial region today. That is, at stable temperatures at the time, most dinosaurs may not have had the same range of variations as reptiles today. It is also possible that dinosaurs are in a transitional phase of biological evolution, and some dinosaurs are transforming into thermostatic animals according to changes in the environment.
Whether dinosaurs were thermostatic or thermotropic is still inconclusive. We look forward to the day when the mystery will be solved as scientists delve deeper into dinosaurs.