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Dinosaurs warm up

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Study of mammalian bones offers clues to dinosaur physiology.

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  1. Köhler, M., Marín-Moratalla, N., Jordana, X. & Aanes, R. Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11264 (2012).

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