Gaseous emissions from dinosaurs may have warmed prehistoric Earth
Monday, May 7, 2012 - 10:30
in Earth & Climate
Sauropod dinosaurs could in principle have produced enough of the greenhouse gas methane to warm the climate many millions of years ago, at a time when the Earth was warm and wet. That's according to calculations reported in the May 8 issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.
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