dinosaur once ruled the Earth — but now it appears they rule in Hell . Ancient charcoal bank deposit intimate wildfires ran rearing throughout the Cretaceous geological period , meaning dinosaur had to pass 80 million years look out for the next Hell .
So just why was the Cretaceous so fiery ? According to research worker from London ’s Royal Holloway University and Chicago ’s Field Museum , there were two major reasons . First , the greenhouse effect was really stronger back then than it is today , and this mean global temperature were hotter . In such a world , random lightning strikes were much more likely to start out fire than they are now . It also did n’t serve that there was really more O in the atmosphere in the Cretaceous than there is now , and that made the breeze itself more combustible .
Unlike today , where you generally need drouth conditions to take hold before wildfire become a serious problem , the Cretaceous — which lasted from about 145 to 65 million age ago — was hot enough and had high enough oxygen spirit level that even very moist plants could easily burn . As Royal Holloway Professor Andrew C. Scott explain , these constant fires would have wrought havoc on the Cretaceous environment , “ not only destroying the vegetation , but also exacerbating run - off and wearing away and promoting subsequent implosion therapy following storms . ”
The researchers were capable to track the role of ancient fire through charcoal deposits in the fossil record . These signs of ancient fires are practically omnipresent in Cretaceous dinosaur deposit . Exactly how these fire would have affected the behavior of the dinosaur is still an loose doubt , but I reckon we do now know one thing for certain – Terra Nova would have been way more enjoyable if everything prevent arbitrarily becharm on fire .
ViaCretaceous Research . Image by photobank.kiev.ua , viaShutterstock .
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