Many dinosaurs were likely warm-blooded with high metabolic rates that resembled those of modern birds, according to a study published yesterday (May 25) in Nature. Comparing samples from more than 50 ...

How do they do it? Chemistry helps! The most important adaptation is how animals regulate their body temperature. Animals can be either warm-blooded or cold-blooded. Warm-blooded animals, which are ...

This important study explores the conserved role of IgM in both systemic and mucosal antiviral immunity in teleosts, challenging established views on the differential roles of IgT and IgM. The ...

Since the birth of paleontology, scientists have hotly debated whether dinosaurs were cold- or warm-blooded. It's been commonly suggested that warm-bloodedness was an avian innovation, something ...

Geese, like all birds, are warm-blooded animals, also called regulators, whose bodies make their own heat, whatever the weather. But they need plenty of food to do this and food for geese is ...

While this may be true of warm-blooded animals, what about exotherms like insects? Thanks to a 65-year-old grasshopper collection, scientists have documented that some species -- those ...

Atlantic bluefins are warm-blooded, a rare trait among fish, and are comfortable in the cold waters off Newfoundland and Iceland, as well as the tropical waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the ...