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Gigantothermy, a Common card
Gigantothermy is a phenomenon with significance in biology and paleontology, whereby large, bulky ectothermic animals are more easily able to maintain a constant, relatively high body temperature than smaller animals by virtue of their smaller surface-area-to-volume ratio.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 44
- DEF
- 20
- Power
- 64
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,500
Power 64 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 10 % of WikiCards cards.
Gigantothermy quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gigantothermy card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Gigantotherms, though almost always ectothermic, generally have a body temperature similar to that of ______.
Answer
endotherms. Gigantotherms, though almost always ectothermic, generally have a body temperature similar to that of endotherms. From the Gigantothermy article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
USS Puritan. USS Puritan 51 · Gigantothermy 44 · Carassius 40 · Venus girdle 35 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Carassius. Carassius 17,000 · Gigantothermy 9,500 · Philodendron squamiferum 7,100 · Fure's Cabin 5,500 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- A bigger animal has proportionately less of its body close to the outside environment than a smaller animal of otherwise similar shape, and so it gains heat from, or loses heat to, the environment much more slowly.
- The phenomenon is important in the biology of ectothermic megafauna, such as large turtles, and aquatic reptiles like ichthyosaurs and mosasaurs.
- Gigantotherms, though almost always ectothermic, generally have a body temperature similar to that of endotherms.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gigantothermy article was read about 9,500 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 44 and blocks with 20: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
How to get Gigantothermy
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gigantothermy (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Arno / Coen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
