Were dinosaurs warm-blooded or cold-blooded?

Because dinosaurs are classified as reptiles, one might assume that they are cold blooded, but some scientists suggest that dinosaurs may have been somewhere between cold and warm blooded. Though most animals fall into either category, there have been some intermediary species known to science, with dinosaurs potentially being one of this number.

The lack of certainty and the assertion that dinosaurs may have been neither warm nor cold blooded stems from the fact that birds, which may be the dinosaurs' closest living relatives, are warm blooded, unlike modern reptiles, which are cold blooded. There is also evidence to suggest that dinosaurs had faster metabolisms than cold-blooded animals typically have.