Sep 24, 2026 · 33 min · 12 segments
Yes, you read that title correctly! It's a good ol' fashioned animal trivia episode! Alexis learned some surprising new information about dinosaurs, so Ella decided to find a bunch of animal facts to…
Okay, so the first unexpected animal thing I wanted to talk about came from an article from the Smithsonian that I was reading, and they have found that, um, basically, a bunch of dinosaurs that we all assumed were basically just reptiles are actually all warm-blooded.
So two major groups of dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded, um, and those are basically the Tyrannosaurus rex and the Velociraptor.
So that, this is like, the first article came out, and they were like, "Oh, we're starting to think this," like, because the, the, like, the way this evolved depended on their surroundings and, like, the temperatures around them.
And so things that are cold-blooded kind of need to be in a pretty, like, even tempered zone because it's like they rely on getting, like, their temperature from their environment, whereas a warm-blooded have the ability to, like, maintain their temperature using, like, different, like, for ex- having feathers or to shiver actually makes you warmer.
Um, and they found that, like, the range that these other dinosaurs have been living in, uh, this is in the early Jurassic, um, were, like, much colder areas than, like, one could survive being, uh, cold-blooded.
Um, and so they were like, "Oh, let's, like, look more into this," and they were like, they, they think that they were.
And then a new article came out being like, actually figured out that the T. rex was warm-blooded, and they believe that it had a temperature really similar to human temperature, like 97 degrees.
Um, they drilled tiny holes in the teeth and collected the powder, and they would take, they would research the chemical bonds between certain forms of carbon and oxygen in the enamel.
Okay, so the first unexpected animal thing I wanted to talk about came from an article from the Smithsonian that I was reading, and they have found that, um, basically, a bunch of dinosaurs that we all assumed were basically just reptiles are actually all warm-blooded.
So two major groups of dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded, um, and those are basically the Tyrannosaurus rex and the Velociraptor.
So that, this is like, the first article came out, and they were like, "Oh, we're starting to think this," like, because the, the, like, the way this evolved depended on their surroundings and, like, the temperatures around them.
And so things that are cold-blooded kind of need to be in a pretty, like, even tempered zone because it's like they rely on getting, like, their temperature from their environment, whereas a warm-blooded have the ability to, like, maintain their temperature using, like, different, like, for ex- having feathers or to shiver actually makes you warmer.
Um, and they found that, like, the range that these other dinosaurs have been living in, uh, this is in the early Jurassic, um, were, like, much colder areas than, like, one could survive being, uh, cold-blooded.
Um, and so they were like, "Oh, let's, like, look more into this," and they were like, they, they think that they were.
And then a new article came out being like, actually figured out that the T. rex was warm-blooded, and they believe that it had a temperature really similar to human temperature, like 97 degrees.
Um, they drilled tiny holes in the teeth and collected the powder, and they would take, they would research the chemical bonds between certain forms of carbon and oxygen in the enamel.
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