Are stegosaurus is warm -blooded

Answer 1

Ceratosaurus was a theropod, a member of the suborder that gave rise to birds. Of all of the dinosaur groups, theropods are most likely to have been warm blooded. However, fossil evidence suggests that it wasn't only theropods and birds, but all dinosaurs that were warm blooded.

Answer 2

It is unknown whether dinosaurs were warm or cold blooded. If they were warm blooded, then small dinosaurs would have been warm blooded. If they were cold blooded, then small dinosaurs would have been cold blooded.

Answer 3

"Warm blooded" and "cold blooded" are kind of out-of-use terms. All animals generate some body heat, so all blood is sort of warm. The preferred terms are "homeothermic" which means, "keeps its body temperate within a narrow range" and "poikilothermic" which means, "its body temperate varies over a wide range."

Stegosaurus was probably a "passive homeotherm" or "gigantotherm" which means it keep it body roughly at the same temperature all the time just by being big (so it had relatively little skin covering a lot of bulk).

Small, active creatures such as Velociraptor were almost certainly "active homeotherms" while lizards which have to bask in the sun to warm up are definitely poikilotherms.

Some people think the Stegosaurus's back plates served as solar panels and/or evaporative coolers, which would suggest it was somewhat poikilothermic.

Answer 4

Stegosaurus was an ornithischian dinosaur. Fossil evidence suggests that dinosaurs were, in fact, warm blooded. Thus, Stegosaurus was probably warm blooded, as well.

Answer 5

Stegosaurus was a dinosaur, and paleontologists continue to find more evidence that dinosaurs were warm blooded. Thus, Stegosaurus was probably warm blooded.