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A cool and misty dawn, circa 78 million B.C. A lone triceratops interrupts a leisurely meal of ferns and twigs to glance around uneasily. Though the 11-ton creature is an intellectual lightweight, it senses the danger lurking in the surrounding forest. Suddenly, out from behind a tree lumbers one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting the Book on Dinosaurs | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

Dinosaurs probably weren't cold-blooded either. They could move along briskly, even in cool weather; some lived above the Arctic Circle, where the sun never rises in winter. Rather than a uniform dull green, they could easily have been striped, spotted and brilliantly colored. Even the idea that all...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting the Book on Dinosaurs | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

The assumption that dinosaurs were ectothermic -- cold-blooded -- was originally based on a simple argument. Reptiles are ectothermic -- they can't regulate their body heat. If they get too hot, they die. If they get too cold, they get sluggish. Dinosaurs were closely related to reptiles. End of argument.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting the Book on Dinosaurs | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

Some of the boys' parents seemed unperturbed. At the Belman home, where son Kristopher, 18, had returned after being released from custody, father Donald said, "Nothing my boy did was anything any red-blooded American boy wouldn't do at his age." Billy Shehan's father Billy Sr. offered a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex With a Scorecard | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

Yet as before, violence tested the resolve of the politicians. Gunmen staged a conference-eve attack on a school bus in Natal province, killing six. Three days later, a similar cold-blooded ambush there left 10 people dead. What may have been tit-for-tat murders prompted fears of renewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hope And Death | 3/15/1993 | See Source »

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