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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFlatulent Dinosaurs changed the world
from the Independent UK:
Huge plant-eating dinosaurs may have produced enough greenhouse gas by breaking wind to alter the Earth's climate, research suggests.
Like leviathan cows, the mighty sauropods would have generated enormous quantities of methane.
Sauropods, recognisable by their long necks and tails, were widespread around 150 million years ago.
They included some of the largest animals to walk the Earth, such as Diplodocus, which measured 150 feet and weighed up to 45 tonnes. ................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dinosaur-wind-altered-climate-7721965.html
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Flatulent Dinosaurs changed the world (Original Post)
marmar
May 2012
OP
no_hypocrisy
(46,182 posts)1. Republicans changed the world?
Magoo48
(4,720 posts)2. Now it's a flatulent GOP...
get the red out
(13,468 posts)3. Creation Museum
I would hope Kentucky's wonderful creation museum would take this into consideration and create the appropriate smell that surely dominated the world 6,000 years ago.
YABBA DABBA DO!
marmar
(77,090 posts)4. Their exhibit would have a human with a gas mask saddled up on the dino's back.
nt
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)5. Movie sequel waiting to happen - "Jurassic Fart"