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Roger S. Seymour, Professor Emeritus of Physiology, University of Adelaide

Holes in baby dinosaur bones show how football-sized hatchlings grew to 3-tonne teens

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Despite their public image as torpid, lumbering creatures, many dinosaurs were evidently warm-blooded, highly active animals, capable of prolonged and strenuous aerobic exercise.

In new research, my colleagues and I determined how much energy minibus-sized dinosaurs called Maiasaura used while growing to adulthood.

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