First ‘warm-blooded’ dinosaurs may have emerged 180 million years ago

The ability to regulate body temperature, a trait all mammals and birds have today, may have evolved among some dinosaurs early in the Jurassic period about 180 million years ago, suggests a new study led by Dr Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza (UCL Earth Sciences).

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