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were warm, though maybe not warm-blooded  By Randolph E. Schmid,
Scientists have figured out a way to take the temperature of
dinosaurs, and it turns out that theirs was almost the same as
ours.  Of course, you can’t just stick a thermometer under the
tongue of a gigantic creature that’s been extinct for millions
of years. So they did the next best thing. They studied dinosaur
teeth, which can reflect body temperature.  They found the long-
necked brachiosaurus had a temperature of about 100.8 degrees ,
and the smaller camarasaurus had a temperature of about 98.3
degrees. People average 98.6.  But their findings, reported
online in the journal Science, won’t settle the debate over
whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or cold-blooded.  When
dinosaurs were first discovered, the theory was that they were
lumbering and cold-blooded, but in recent years the consensus
has been moving more toward warm-blooded, which would have
allowed them to be more ac