Source/Credit: The Times of Malta:  

Dino discovery Sauropod dino­saurs, the enormous plant-eating dinos with long tails and necks, had body temperatures ranging from 36°C to 38°C – making them as warm as most mammals – including people.

Because body temperature usually rises the larger an animal gets, the findings published in Science, suggest huge sauropods had mechanisms for cooling themselves off.

“What we can say is that sauropods did not have body temperatures that were as cold as modern crocodiles and alligators,” says lead author Robert Eagle from the California Institute of Technology.  READ THE ORIGINAL POST WITH MORE DETAILS:

Dinosaurs were animal world’s top bone heads

Source / Credit: BBC.CO.UK

Scientists have compared a dinosaur with several modern-day animals to settle who wins the heavy-weight head-butting title.

The new findings confirm that the ancient bipedal dinosaur Stegocerascould knock out any of today’s top head-butters.

Stegoceras probably used their domed skulls to ram each other over access to fertile females.

The hard-hitting research was published in the journal PLoS ONE.

Stegoceras was a member of the leaf-eating genus Pachycephalosauriathat roamed the Earth around 70 million years ago. FIND MORE: