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Study finds T. rex was warm-blooded with body temperature similar to humans

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A recent study utilizing fossilized Tyrannosaurus rex teeth has provided new insights into the dinosaur's body temperature. Researchers analyzed chemical compounds within the fossils to estimate the T. rex's core temperature, suggesting it was warm-blooded and maintained a body temperature comparable to modern humans. This finding challenges earlier assumptions that dinosaurs were exclusively cold-blooded and sluggish. AI

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Study finds T. rex was warm-blooded with body temperature similar to humans

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Associated Press ·

    T. rex was warm-blooded and had body temperature close to ours, study finds

    Using fossilised teeth, scientists have finally taken the T. rex’s temperature – and it wasn’t too different from our own. Researchers once thought that dinosaurs were sluggish, cold-blooded creatures. Later findings challenged that, suggesting that older dinosaurs were warm-bloo…

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