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Dinosaurs died as they failed to generate heat? [1]

A new study has claimed that lack of a heatgenerating tissue may have contributed to the extinction of dinosaurs. A team of researchers at New York Medical College came to the conclusion after discovering why birds, unlike mammals, lack a tissue that is specialised to generate heat, the

Publication Date: 
28/04/2008
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Mammals [3], Birds [4], Life Science [5], Research [6]

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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mammals
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/birds
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/life-science
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/research