Dinosaurs living in a COLD environment? Hmmmm.

Last updated on: September 22, 2015 at 10:16 pm by Dan Peterson

Brontoburgers on the hoof — I grew up with images such as this one, of the aquatic or mostly aquatic Brontosaurus. Such images are now quite obsolete — as, some will inevitably point out, am I.
(Wikimedia CC, public domain; click to enlarge.)

Granted, Alaska then wasn’t like Alaska now. But, still, it was scarcely tropical:

http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/b2f0ca3a594644ee9e50a8ec4ce2d6de/Article_2015-09-22-US-Alaska-Dinosaur/id-ffb2704d3ee64a3e894acab9b682d786

The notion that some dinosaurs may have been more bird-like, even more mammal-like, than we’ve long imagined is very interesting. It’s certainly not what I was taught, back in my dinosaur-loving childhood.

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