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Birds are, according to modern phylogenetics, technically considered reptiles, and are warm-blooded. Their fellow dinosaurs were also likely endothermic too.
It’s been suggested by paleontologists that modern crocodilians are secondarily ectothermic and the archosaurs they descend from were also warm-blooded.
Pterosaurs had coats of “fur” (technically pycnofibres), and so were likely warm-blooded.
So were icthyosaurs, since they had blubber.
Also, we think that mosasaurs were endothermic too.
Lastly, the leatherback turtle is a “mesotherm”, its metabolism being sort of transitional between cold- and warm-blooded.
TL;DR: Yep.
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