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- Pseudemys turtles (shown here basking for warmth) are ectothermic....
- endothermic or ectothermic vertebrates, although extensive research has been done on the SCN in model animals such as the mammalian mouse and ectothermic reptiles...
- called ectothermic homeothermy or inertial homeothermy) is a phenomenon with significance in biology and paleontology, whereby large, bulky ectothermic animals...
- Various researchers have supported dinosaurs as being endothermic, ectothermic ("cold-blooded"), or somewhere in between. An emerging consensus among...
- Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia. In its broadest sense, it is a paraphyletic...
- birds, mammals can forage or hunt in weather and climates too cold for ectothermic ("cold-blooded") reptiles and insects. Endothermy requires plenty of...
- its being the only mammalian thermoconformer with an almost entirely ectothermic (cold-blooded) form of body temperature regulation, as well as exhibiting...
- endothermic animals typically require several times as much food as ectothermic animals do, and usually require a more sustained supply of metabolic...
- suborder Serpentes (/sɜːrˈpɛntiːz/). Cladistically squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales much like other members...
- were between 12 and 20 °C during the MKH. The poles were so warm that ectothermic reptiles were able to inhabit them. Beginning in the Santonian, near...