COLD AND WARM BLOODED ANIMALS

[triggerhappy678]

So dinosaurs were probably cold blooded. There is going to be dynamic weather systems.
It would be awesome if you could somehow combine the two. Say all the reptiles/dinosaurs were sluggish and slow in the early morning (like modern day reptiles), and spend the early hours basking in the sun warming up. Then by noon and later they would have sufficient energy to be active.
If with the dynamic weather it was a particularly rainy/cold day it could take them longer to be more active, or they could be more sluggish and easier to knock unconscious, as they wouldn't have as much energy.
Conversely if it was particularly warm/sunny the dinosaurs/reptiles could be active earlier or more energetic/faster.
This means warm blooded animals would have the advantage during the morning and cold blooded animals would have the advantage during the afternoon. This could lead to interesting fights between two species, for example a pack of sabertooths being able to take down a T-Rex in the morning (like in the Dossier), however the tables being turned and the sabertooths being prey in the afternoon after the T-Rex has been basking in the sun and is more active/aggressive.
This could be taken even a few steps further, with dinosaurs like stegosaurus and spinosaurus
having specific adaptations such as plates and sails to increase the amount of sunlight absorbed. Therefore the time taken to reach a state of increased activity/alertness could vary from animal to animal. Probably worth noting that marine animals didn't get effected much by this due to the fact the sea remained roughly the same temperature all the time, so don't think you can sneakily knock out a megalodon ;)
I'm not saying dinosaurs should be incapacitated in the morning or anything that extreme, just that in dawn/early morning maybe dinosaurs/reptiles would be more interested in warming up rather than running around trying to eat things/not get eaten.
I realise this would probably be horrible to program/code, just an idea though :)
Let me know what you guys think...

[White, the Loiterer]

Actually, due to how dinosaurs stood with their bodies far above the ground unlike todays reptiles that keep their bodies down for warmth. And also the antarctic dinosaurs. Has led many scientist to believe that Dinosaurs most likely were warm-blooded.

[PCAwesomeness]

Dinosaurs were likely warm-blooded. If they weren't, they wouldn't be so fast, and they wouldn't move for long distances.

Also, keep in mind some dinosaurs were nocturnal.

[White, the Loiterer]

Първоначално публикувано от PCAwesomeness:

Dinosaurs were likely warm-blooded. If they weren't, they wouldn't be so fast, and they wouldn't move for long distances.

+2

[VoidFish]

Well, looks like someone failed biology class.

[White, the Loiterer]

Първоначално публикувано от BlackFish:

Well, looks like someone failed biology class.

Which person?

[VoidFish]

Първоначално публикувано от WarlordOfRome:

Първоначално публикувано от BlackFish:

Well, looks like someone failed biology class.

Which person?

Original Poster

[White, the Loiterer]

Първоначално публикувано от BlackFish:

Първоначално публикувано от WarlordOfRome:

Which person?

Original Poster

Well at least they learned now.

[Ghesh-Kriv]

people thinking dinos were cold blooded was ages ago now there throught to be warm blooded and possibly had simple feathers ot at least the theropds

[White, the Loiterer]

Първоначално публикувано от Skulls:

people thinking dinos were cold blooded was ages ago now there throught to be warm blooded and possibly had simple feathers ot at least the theropds

+1

[TheLeftHand]

And you're all wrong. Most dinos were (most likely) neither endothermic (warm-blooded) nor ectothermic (cold-blooded), but mesothermic (somewhere in between).

Cold-blooded animals need to be able to absorb lots of heat from the environment, or shed a lot of heat into the environment. Most dinos do not seem structured to do this.

Warm-blooded creatures the size of dinos would need too much food to reasonably live without destroying an ecosystem. We burn far more fuel keeping ourselves warm than you'd suspect.

This has led researchers to believe dinos were somewhere between.
Here's[www.nature.com] an article with scholarly citations and references about the subject.

[White, the Loiterer]

Първоначално публикувано от TheLeftHand:

And you're all wrong. Most dinos were (most likely) neither warm-blooded nor cold-blooded, but somewhere in between.

Cold-blooded animals need to be able to absorb lots of heat from the environment, or shed a lot of heat into the environment. Most dinos do not seem structured to do this.

Warm-blooded creatures the size of dinos would need too much food to reasonably live without destroying an ecosystem. We burn far more fuel keeping ourselves warm than you'd suspect.

This has led researchers to believe dinos were somewhere between.
Here's[www.nature.com] an article with scholarly citations and references about the subject.

*mic drop*

[scrappybristol]

Първоначално публикувано от TheLeftHand:

And you're all wrong. Most dinos were (most likely) neither warm-blooded nor cold-blooded, but somewhere in between.

Cold-blooded animals need to be able to absorb lots of heat from the environment, or shed a lot of heat into the environment. Most dinos do not seem structured to do this.

Warm-blooded creatures the size of dinos would need too much food to reasonably live without destroying an ecosystem. We burn far more fuel keeping ourselves warm than you'd suspect.

This has led researchers to believe dinos were somewhere between.
Here's[www.nature.com] an article with scholarly citations and references about the subject.

so dinosaurs were robots. k.

[VoidFish]

Първоначално публикувано от TheLeftHand:

And you're all wrong. Most dinos were (most likely) neither warm-blooded nor cold-blooded, but somewhere in between.

Cold-blooded animals need to be able to absorb lots of heat from the environment, or shed a lot of heat into the environment. Most dinos do not seem structured to do this.

Warm-blooded creatures the size of dinos would need too much food to reasonably live without destroying an ecosystem. We burn far more fuel keeping ourselves warm than you'd suspect.

This has led researchers to believe dinos were somewhere between.
Here's[www.nature.com] an article with scholarly citations and references about the subject.

Like i said in a post last week, Dinosaurs were mesotherms.

Kids this is why you stay in school, or you become the village idiot.

[TheLeftHand]

Първоначално публикувано от WarlordOfRome:

Първоначално публикувано от TheLeftHand:

And you're all wrong. Most dinos were (most likely) neither warm-blooded nor cold-blooded, but somewhere in between.

Cold-blooded animals need to be able to absorb lots of heat from the environment, or shed a lot of heat into the environment. Most dinos do not seem structured to do this.

Warm-blooded creatures the size of dinos would need too much food to reasonably live without destroying an ecosystem. We burn far more fuel keeping ourselves warm than you'd suspect.

This has led researchers to believe dinos were somewhere between.
Here's[www.nature.com] an article with scholarly citations and references about the subject.

*mic drop*

It's part of my job to make sure we get this stuff right. ;-)

[Ghesh-Kriv]

Първоначално публикувано от TheLeftHand:

And you're all wrong. Most dinos were (most likely) neither warm-blooded nor cold-blooded, but somewhere in between.

Cold-blooded animals need to be able to absorb lots of heat from the environment, or shed a lot of heat into the environment. Most dinos do not seem structured to do this.

Warm-blooded creatures the size of dinos would need too much food to reasonably live without destroying an ecosystem. We burn far more fuel keeping ourselves warm than you'd suspect.

This has led researchers to believe dinos were somewhere between.
Here's[www.nature.com] an article with scholarly citations and references about the subject.

I have to disagree the largest mammal was called a paraceratherium and it was bigger then a few of the well know dinos for example tricrotops