A fundamental question in dinosaur evolution is how they adapted to long-term climatic shifts during the Mesozoic Era (the dinosaur era lasting from 230 to 66 million years ago) and when they developed environmentally independent, avian-style acclimatization, becoming endothermic (warm-blooded). The ability of warm-blooded dinosaurs to flourish in harsher environments, including cold, high-latitude regions, raises intriguing questions about the origins...
