Re: DinoMania Trivia!

by **Thobe** Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:06 am

corel

by **Dino589** Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:10 am

schnautzr wrote:Oh. Wait a minute...they were cold-blooded, right? So it would be the same temperature as the surrounding water.

Bingo!

by **schnautzr** Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:16 am

Woot for science...mosasaurs were cold-blooded!

by **Dino589** Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:19 am

schnautzr wrote:Woot for science...mosasaurs were cold-blooded!

Yep. And plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, though descended from cold-blooded ancestors, somehow evolved to be homeothermic and had body temperatures much greater than that of the water around them.

Ah, don't you just love what isotope studies can turn out?

by **schnautzr** Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:22 am

Awesome! Thanks for sharing this fascinating news...I haven't completely read the article yet, and now I'm excited to do so....

I feel smart now. Smile

by **Dino589** Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:36 am

Ah, happy to help. Smile

Now, to think of more questions....

by **Dino589** Wed Jun 23, 2010 4:55 am

# 45: Which group of dinosaurs has been proven to have been semiaquatic?

by **schnautzr** Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:56 am

Oh, gosh..I want to say the spinosaurs, but I thought that was all just speculation without reason. My second guess is the ceratopsians...they were just discovered in Europe.

by **Dino589** Wed Jun 23, 2010 9:40 am

schnautzr wrote:Oh, gosh..I want to say the spinosaurs, but I thought that was all just speculation without reason. My second guess is the ceratopsians...they were just discovered in Europe.

So which one are you guessing, then?

by **schnautzr** Wed Jun 23, 2010 11:33 am

Hmmmm, the ceratopsians are more convincing to me. I'll go with them.

by **Dino589** Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:07 pm

Incorrect.

by **Therizinosaur** Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:35 am

I'm guessing it might be hadrosaurs.

by **Dino589** Thu Jun 24, 2010 2:40 am

Also incorrect.

by **Therizinosaur** Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:24 am

Well then sauropods....I suppose.

by **Dino589** Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:08 am

Also incorrect.

Lol, I would have thought this one would have been fairly obvious.

by **schnautzr** Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:54 am

I can't guess...I saw the answer somewhere. The more I think about it, the more it makes sense.

by **Dino589** Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:03 am

So then what group are you thinking about?

by **schnautzr** Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:25 am

We'll see if anyone gets it...

by **94titano** Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:16 am

spinosaurs

by **Dino589** Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:18 am

94titano wrote:spinosaurs

Yep.

Once again, the wonders of isotope studies...

That puts you on the scoreboard.

by **Therizinosaur** Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:13 pm

I thought spinosaurs were the obvious ones. Then schnautzr said it was speculation, so I thought it was speculation.

by **schnautzr** Fri Jun 25, 2010 1:44 pm

Lol well I thought the spinosaurs were speculation until I accidentally happened across a reference to a news article.

by **Dino589** Fri Jun 25, 2010 2:23 pm

Therizinosaur wrote:I thought spinosaurs were the obvious ones. Then schnautzr said it was speculation, so I thought it was speculation.

Well, no one said that the obvious one is always never the answer. : P
Actually when I asked Schnautzr to make his choice, I was tempted to hint that it was the spinosaurs, but figured someone would get it.... eventually. : P

by **schnautzr** Mon Jun 28, 2010 4:57 am

#46: No one would recognize the mammalian bite marks on bones except a scientist who used to do what?

by **Dino589** Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:29 am

Er... Alright, I have no idea. You've got me beat.

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