Measurement of the Cross-Sectional Area of the Nasal Passages of Nine Species of Modern Odontoceti with Implications for Comparative Physiology and the Paleophysiology of the Dinosauria
In search of evidence for or against the endothermic dinosaur hypothesis, a recent study by Ruben et al. (1996) revealed that endotherms tend to have larger nasal cross-sectional areas than ectotherms of the same mass. The reason offered for this observation was that larger nasal passages are needed...
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PDXScholar
1999
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Online Access: | https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2247 https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3249&context=open_access_etds |