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Recognition of endothermy in dinosaurs can explain both the success and the extinction of this group in the Mesozoic.
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BAKKER, R. Anatomical and Ecological Evidence of Endothermy in Dinosaurs. Nature 238, 81–85 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/238081a0
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