What a 66-million-year old forest fire reveals about the last days of the dinosaurs
Friday, June 6, 2014 - 02:32
in Paleontology & Archaeology
As far back as the time of the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago, forests recovered from fires in the same manner they do today, according to a researchers. During an expedition in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, the team discovered the first fossil-record evidence of forest fire ecology -- the regrowth of plants after a fire -- revealing a snapshot of the ecology on earth just before the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.