Down Under dinosaur burrow discovery provides climate change clues
Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 08:49
in Paleontology & Archaeology
On the heels of his discovery in Montana of the first trace fossil of a dinosaur burrow, Emory University palaeontologist Anthony Martin has found evidence of more dinosaur burrows - this time on the other side of the world, in Victoria, Australia. The find, to be published this month in Cretaceous Research, suggests that burrowing behaviours were shared by dinosaurs of different species, in different hemispheres, and spanned millions of years during the Cretaceous Period, when some dinosaurs lived in polar environments...