Chilly times for Chinese dinosaurs
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 11:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Dinosaurs did not always enjoy mild climates. New findings show that during part of the Early Cretaceous, north-east China had a temperate climate with harsh winters. They explain the abundance of feathered dinosaurs in fossil deposits of that period. The discovery was made by an international collaboration coordinated by Romain Amiot of the Laboratoire de geologie de Lyon (France). Their work is published on the PNAS website this week.