Dr. Emma Schachner and Dr. Stephanie Baumgart published a review article covering the research on dinosaur physiology for a Biology Letters Special Feature on Dinosaur Science, organized in honor of the 200th anniversary of the naming of the first dinosaur.
The living dinosaur: media summary
200 years of dinosaur discovery have allowed paleontologists to vividly reconstruct the life appearance of these charismatic creatures. Now, with recent advances in technology such as Raman spectroscopy, computational fluid dynamics, and computed tomography, paleontology can expand beyond appearance to tackle aspects of dinosaur physiology such as metabolic rate, thermoregulation, and lung biology. The answers provided by these techniques offer a tantalizing glimpse into dinosaur physiology, but the vagaries of the fossil record and the vast physiological diversity of modern-day relatives place important limits on the extent of what we can confidently say about dinosaur physiology.
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