endothermy

He published his first paper on dinosaur endothermy in 1968.

Endothermy may also provide a protection against fungal infection.

The high temperatures afforded by endothermy might have provided an evolutionary advantage.

Example: where did endothermy evolve in the lineage that led to mammals?

By this time, the marsupial young are capable of sustaining endothermy on their own.

The evidence indicates homeothermy, but by itself cannot prove endothermy.

Endothermy is seen today in mammals, the only living group of therapsids.

Tuna achieve endothermy by conserving the heat generated through normal metabolism.

The authors also provide other evidence for endothermy in stem archosaurs.

Unfortunately bipedality does not prove high activity or endothermy.

The problem, as this chapter has made all too clear, is that there are many fine distinctions between homeothermy and full endothermy.

Surely you can appreciate what this means for the scientific debate over ornithischian endothermy!"

The nocturnal lifestyle may have contributed greatly to the development of mammalian traits such as endothermy and hair.

Endothermy, the ability to generate heat internally rather than via behaviors such as basking or muscular activity.

A further indication for endothermy is the avian-style lung of Plateosaurus.

Incidentally, the argument that dinosaurs would have needed to keep their brains cool neither proves nor disproves endothermy.

Some writers restrict the meaning of endothermy to mechanisms that directly raise the animal's metabolic rate in order to produce heat.

The major advantage of endothermy over ectothermy is decreased vulnerability to fluctuations in external temperature.

Thermoregulation in organisms runs along a spectrum from endothermy to ectothermy.

However, animals with facultative endothermy are often poikilothermic, meaning their temperature can vary considerably.

Mammalian endothermy and homeothermy are potent nonspecific defenses against most fungi.

The opposite of endothermy is ectothermy.

Endothermy requires plenty of food energy, so mammals eat more food per unit of body weight than most reptiles.

More recently, endothermy for all dinosaurs has become the consensus view, and debate has focused on the mechanisms of temperature regulation .

Glanosuchus may have been one of the first therapsids to achieve endothermy, or warm-bloodedness.