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Arguments Against Dinosaurs

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The article states that dinosaurs unlike other modern reptiles are endotherms. They are able to maintain constant body temperatures in even cold weather. The article provides three reasons of support. However, the professor explains that scientists believe otherwise and refutes each of the author's reasons. First, the reading claims that because dinosaurs lived in polar regions where there is extreme cold temperature,dinosaurs were still able to maintain a temperature above the external environment. The professor refutes this by saying that polar regions in those period when these dinosaurs lived were warmer than it is now. Second, the article posits that leg positioning of dinosaurs wherein their legs are underneath their body allows them

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