In a major new climate finding, researchers have calculated that dinosaur flatulence could have put enough methane into the atmosphere to warm the planet during the hot, wet Mesozoic era. Like gigantic, long-necked, prehistoric cows, sauropod dinosaurs roamed widely around the Earth 150 million years ago, scientists reported in the journal Current Biology on Monday. And just like big cows, their plant digestion was aided by methane-producing microbes. READ MORE: Dinosaur flatulence may have warmed Earth
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In a major new climate finding, researchers have calculated that dinosaur flatulence could have put enough methane into the atmosphere to warm the planet during the hot, wet Mesozoic era.

Like gigantic, long-necked, prehistoric cows, sauropod dinosaurs roamed widely around the Earth 150 million years ago, scientists reported in the journal Current Biology on Monday.

And just like big cows, their plant digestion was aided by methane-producing microbes.

READ MORE: Dinosaur flatulence may have warmed Earth

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    news of the year for me.
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    Az egész emberiség hatása...golobális felemlegetésre kisebb, mint a dinófing - “mutatták...
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    their own farts that killed them!
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    LOLOL DINO FARTS
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    How Did Dinosaurs Warm The Earth? reuters:
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    warming is obviously a hoax,...real reason is dinosaur farts.
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    Los peos de dinosaurio produjeron calentamiento global? no me jodan…
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    Is reading this more fun than re-reading feminist critiques of neo-conservative justifications for certain legislation...
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