Daily Dino Fact: You Gotta Have Heart!
You have my heart.....wait, wait, give that back, I need it!!!
Since today is Valentine’s Day in some parts of the world, I thought it would be a perfect time to find out about dinosaur hearts!
Well, guess what? We don’t know much for certain about dinosaur hearts. Since hearts are soft tissue, they don’t generally preserve as fossils. However, in the year 2000, scientists in North Carolina discovered a fossilized heart in the remains of a 60 million year old Thescelosaurus neglectus nicknamed “Willo”. They used a computer tomography (CT) scanner to look inside a grape-fruit sized, reddish brown clump in the dinosaur’s chest. What they discovered was a four-chambered heart, more like a human or bird than a lizard.
So, what does that tell us? The scientists claim that it supports the thinking that many dinosaurs were warm-blooded, active animals. The CT scans have revealed other shadow and shapes that may turn out to be other fossilized organs as well. It seems like there is always something new to find out about dinosaurs! Science rocks!!
~ModCeno
Tags: fossils, heart, thescelosaurus neglectus, Valentine's Day, webosaurs
February 14th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Not the kind of heart you think…
February 14th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
What was the biggest flying dinosaur?
February 15th, 2010 at 8:34 am
did dinosaurs ever build burrows
February 15th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
Sup ETHANATOR now i know what u mean.
February 15th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
I think that was relly funny one Ethanator when you said that sentence:You have my heart…Wait, wait,give that back,i need it!That was a good one because you
need your own heart to live or to stay alive!Good one I relly liked that one that you said.