Instead of that Baptestina asteroid, couldn’t the end-Cretaceous mass extinction have been caused by a Jurassic methane bomb many times larger than that of all current livestock emissions?
Flatulent dinosaurs may have been a larger methane source than current human activities
The long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs known as sauropods that lived about 150 million years ago appear to have been rather flatulent. New calculations put the combined methane production of the hulking beasts at 520 million tonnes (Tg). As a comparison the … Continue reading
As ocean temperatures rise, some species of corals are likely to succeed at the expense of others, according to a report published online on April 12 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology that details the first large-scale investigation of climate effects on corals.