A series of webnotes on dinosaurian physiology:

• Basic principles and evidence
• Lungs, hearts, surface area/volume
• Predator/prey ratios
• Physiology roundup

Website on research on breathing in non-mammalian vertebrates (with Quicktime movies).

Supplementary Reading:

• Special issue on endothermy and ectothermy in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

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Last modified: 12 January 2007