A new study suggests dinosaurs might not have been as cold-blooded as we thought
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An illustration shows a pair of adult tyrannosaurs and their young living in the Arctic during the Cretaceous Period. (James Havens /Courtesy University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Dinosaurs are often depicted as large beasts roaming through tropical forests or across hot deserts and the humid jungle of
Jurassic Park may have gone a long way to solidify those images.
Current Biology contradicts those ideas. It suggests that these creatures also lived year-round in what’s now northern Alaska, where they endured freezing winters, snow, and months of darkness.
Researchers have found hundreds of baby dinosaur bones in the Alaskan Arctic, suggesting that dinosaurs may have lived at cold northern latitudes year-round.
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