Helping predict cold-blooded animals' response to environmental shifts. Newcastle University. Journal Scientific Data DOI 10.1038/s41597-024-02986-x ...

Cold blooded animals, or ectotherms, do not have an internal mechanism for regulating body temperature. ... Biochemistry and Toxicology section for their poster presentation.

Most animals alive today are cold-blooded, or "ectotherms". Insects, worms, fish, crustaceans, amphibians and reptiles—basically all creatures except mammals and birds—are ectotherms.

Cold-blooded animals, including reptiles like snakes and lizards, depend on outside sources to control their temperature: For example, basking in the sun to warm up.

Cold-blooded animals, including reptiles like snakes and lizards, depend on outside sources to control their temperature: For example, basking in the sun to warm up.

In fact, they may have been warm-blooded, new research suggests. Dinosaurs may not have been the slow, sunbathing reptiles researchers used to think. IE 11 is not supported.

How cold-blooded animals adapt to winter. And then there are animals who can put their heartbeat and respiration on pause all winter without dying. It's called brumation, ...

Our ancestors may have become warm-blooded more suddenly than previously realised. A new study, published in Nature, suggests that ancestors of mammals known as mammaliamorphs abruptly went from being ...