08 May 2012

Farting dinosaurs killed themselves

They kept pet saurapods in museums around the world,
but they are FAKE!
Obviously various theories have been going around for years for what wiped out a large number of dinos, like volcanoes and insanely large asteroids obliterating a large chunk of the earth kicking up a massive plume... now it turns out the dinosaurs, well some of them at least, farted themselves into extinction, most likely.




Roaming around 250 million years would have been freakin rank, woah what the hell is that smell?!  Well you know the 'ol methane issue.  Methane being a MASSIVE greenhouse gas... some scientist dudes calculated that giant sauropods made 520 million tons of it per year, that's way more than all the cows do today.


news.com.au gives somewhat more detail and yeah it's originally from a Science journal called Current Biology

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