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