Dinosaurs' digestive gases linked to global warming
Monday, May 7, 2012 - 23:20
in Earth & Climate
British researchers find that methane emissions from sauropods would have far outstripped those from modern-day livestock.Dinosaurs' gassy guts may have contributed to global warming tens of millions of years ago, according to a new study that finds a group of plant-eating dinosaurs could have produced about as much methane as all of today's natural and man-made sources of the greenhouse gas.
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