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Current endotherms are birds and mammals, and I know there is a theory that some dinosaurs where, too. I know that Mammals evolved from reptiles, and that thay already existed before the dinasaurs, and that birds evolved much later from a family of dinosaurs. If both mammals and birds are endotherms, and assuming that both mammals and dinosaurs evolved from exotherm reptiles, did this trait evolve twice, independently? If not, it must mean that all dinasaours where endotherms, doesn't it? Does this trait operate in the same way in birds as it is in mammals?
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