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Previous research has found traits linked to warm-bloodedness among ornithischians and theropods, with some known to have had feathers or proto-feathers, insulating internal heat.

From Science Daily • May 15, 2024

“I was surprised that the inner ear could help us to assess body temperature and warm-bloodedness so well,” David says.

From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2022

But Straka agrees that ear canal bones become more prevalent in future endothermy studies, for example in the debate over dinosaur warm-bloodedness that has lasted decades.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 20, 2022

The authors noted that because warm-bloodedness in birds is "ancestral to pterosaurs and dinosaurs," this suggests that they were neither gigantothermic nor mesothermic.

From Salon • May 29, 2022

If it had not been for conditions that forced certain reptiles to develop warm-bloodedness, we would have no birds or mammals to-day, for as you doubtless know, birds and mammals both were evolved from reptiles.”

From Unexplored! by Chaffee, Allen