{"id":1500,"date":"2011-06-27T11:48:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T18:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2011-06-27T11:48:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T18:48:38","slug":"henry-fricks-research-helps-determine-dinosaur-body-temperatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2011\/06\/27\/henry-fricks-research-helps-determine-dinosaur-body-temperatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Fricke&#8217;s Research Helps Determine Dinosaur Body Temperatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a new way of determining the body temperatures of dinosaurs, providing new insights into whether dinosaurs were cold-or warm-blooded.<\/p>\n<p>A paper co-written by\u00a0 Associate Geology Professor Henry Fricke discusses the techniques used to determine the body temperature of animals that have been extinct for 150 million years.<\/p>\n<p>By analyzing the teeth of sauropods \u2014 long-tailed, long-necked dinosaurs that were the biggest land animals ever to have lived \u2014 the scientists found that these dinosaurs were nearly as warm as most modern mammals. The paper can be viewed at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2011\/06\/22\/science.1206196\">http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2011\/06\/22\/science.1206196<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The research was funded by the National Science Foundation\u2019s division of earth sciences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have developed a new way of determining the body temperatures of dinosaurs, providing new insights into whether dinosaurs were cold-or warm-blooded. A paper co-written by\u00a0 Associate Geology Professor Henry Fricke discusses the techniques used to determine the body temperature of animals that have been extinct for 150 million years. By analyzing the teeth of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2011\/06\/27\/henry-fricks-research-helps-determine-dinosaur-body-temperatures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Henry Fricke&#8217;s Research Helps Determine Dinosaur Body Temperatures&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[172,192,315],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","tag-geology","tag-henry-fricke","tag-nsf","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}