When dinosaurs roamed a fiery landscape
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 12:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The dinosaurs of the Cretaceous may have faced an unexpected hazard: fire! In a paper published online today, researchers from Royal Holloway University of London and The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago have shown that during the Cretaceous (145-65 million years ago) fire was much more widespread than previously thought.