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Science 2 February 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5505, p. 811
DOI: 10.1126/science.291.5505.811
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Doubts Raised About Dinosaur Heart

Erik Stokstad

Last April, a team of scientists unveiled a fossilized dinosaur heart--evidence suggesting that dinosaurs were indeed warm-blooded. But in Science Online this week (see Technical Comments), two paleontologists and a geologist argue that the grapefruit-sized structure is no heart at all but only a deceptive lump of minerals.

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