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Dinosaur farts may have caused prehistoric global warming

05/07/2012
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  • Dinosaurs Caused Global Warming
    We know that today's cows are responsible for producing staggering amounts of heat-trapping methane gas, a major driver of climate change, but British scientists now claim that dinosaurs with vegetarian diets may have contributed to prehistoric global warming simply by passing gas. Dr. Dave Wilkinson from Liverpool John Moores University led the study, which was published in the journal Current Biology. He told The Telegraph "Indeed, our calculations suggest that these dinosaurs could have produced more methane than all modern sources....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/dinosaur-farts-may-have-caused-the-last-global-warming/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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  • Dinosaurs Caused Global Warming
    We know that today's cows are responsible for producing staggering amounts of heat-trapping methane gas, a major driver of climate change, but British scientists now claim that dinosaurs with vegetarian diets may have contributed to prehistoric global warming simply by passing gas. Dr. Dave Wilkinson from Liverpool John Moores University led the study, which was published in the journal Current Biology. He told The Telegraph "Indeed, our calculations suggest that these dinosaurs could have produced more methane than all modern sources....<br><br><a href='https://inhabitat.com/dinosaur-farts-may-have-caused-the-last-global-warming/'>READ ARTICLE</a>
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Dinosaurs Caused Global Warming

We know that today's cows are responsible for producing staggering amounts of heat-trapping methane gas, a major driver of climate change, but British scientists now claim that dinosaurs with vegetarian diets may have contributed to prehistoric global warming simply by passing gas. Dr. Dave Wilkinson from Liverpool John Moores University led the study, which was published in the journal Current Biology. He told The Telegraph "Indeed, our calculations suggest that these dinosaurs could have produced more methane than all modern sources....

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