Word: brontosaur
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...reptiles like the lizard. Cold-blooded animals, whose bodies are small by comparison with most mammals, control their body temperatures by moving into or out of the sun. If dinosaurs were coldblooded, maintains Desmond, they would not have been able to do this because of their size (a brontosaur, for example, weighed around 30 tons); a dinosaur whose body temperature dropped just one degree below the warmth necessary for it to be active would have to bask in the sun for at least several hours to bring it back to normal. Thus, says Desmond, Strithiom-imus, the "ostrich dinosaur," could...
...HEBALD-Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. Sometimes tender, sometimes turgid figurative sculpture by a classically inspired New Yorker who lives in Rome. At best, Hebald's pot-bellied centaurs, lovers lounging in urnlike bathtubs, and fountain topped by the refugees on Noah's Ark (including a brontosaur that presumably fell overboard) are full of frivolous immediacy. Through...
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