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Seasonal bone growth and physiology in endotherms shed light on dinosaur physiology

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  • Meike Köhler

    (ICREA at the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain)

  • Nekane Marín-Moratalla

    (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain)

  • Xavier Jordana

    (Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain)

  • Ronny Aanes

    (Norwegian Polar Institute, Fram Centre, NO-9296 Tromsø, Norway
    Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management, NO-7047 Trondheim, Norway)

Abstract

Dinosaurs were not necessarily cold-blooded: the main argument in favour of this, namely the presence of seasonal lines of arrested bone growth, has been demolished by a comprehensive study of extant ruminants.

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  • Meike Köhler & Nekane Marín-Moratalla & Xavier Jordana & Ronny Aanes, 2012. "Seasonal bone growth and physiology in endotherms shed light on dinosaur physiology," Nature, Nature, vol. 487(7407), pages 358-361, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:487:y:2012:i:7407:d:10.1038_nature11264
    DOI: 10.1038/nature11264
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    1. Eva Maria Griebeler & Jan Werner, 2018. "Formal comment on: Myhrvold (2016) Dinosaur metabolism and the allometry of maximum growth rate. PLoS ONE; 11(11): e0163205," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(2), pages 1-18, February.
    2. Shai Meiri & Eran Levin, 2022. "Revisiting life history and morphological proxies for early mammaliaform metabolic rates," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-3, December.
    3. Eva Maria Griebeler & Nicole Klein & P Martin Sander, 2013. "Aging, Maturation and Growth of Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs as Deduced from Growth Curves Using Long Bone Histological Data: An Assessment of Methodological Constraints and Solutions," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(6), pages 1-17, June.

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