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Woke up and chose violence this morning, so here goes:
Akshully, the Jurassic Park creatures are not reptiles for a number of reasons.
Reptile is paraphyletic and arbitrarily groups species regardless of their lineage.
T. Rex was likely warmblooded as its descendants are.
The creatures are not entirely dinosaurs. They're hybrids of dinosaurs, and modern animals that the Jurassic Park scientists believed were most similar genetically.
Anyway, thanks for commenting, and I hope I've conveyed an appreciative and respectful tone. I sincerely just like sharing, learning, and discussing things.
Also, fight me.
don't wanna fight, but i do want some clarification:
were they actually warm blooded, or that pseudo warm blooded thing some reptiles and fish do where they aren't exactly warm ir cold blooded, but kinda in-between?
dinosaurs were all kinds of -blooded, but t-rex was probably fully warm blooded, like birds. Other, especially "older" ones were cold blooded.
Thanks for adding perspective on this. I agree that it's a much more diverse situation than just giant lizards running around. To add to this, I think it's also likely that other theroppds were also warm-blooded in addition to T. Rex.