Dinosaurs heat the Earth?

Giant dinosaurs may have warmed our planet with their bloating - researchers have said.

British scientists have calculated the methane emissions of lizard-legged dinosaurs, including the known species Brontosaurus.

By examining the sniffing of cows, they estimate that the entire dinosaurs generated 520 million tons of emissions each year. Scientists believe that this emissions is a major factor that heats the climate on Earth 150 million years ago.

Apatosaurus dinosaurs are thought to produce a lot of emissions

David Wikinson from John Moore Liverpool University and colleagues at London University, Glasgow University published the results of their study in Current Biology.

Foot-like dinosaurs are like lizards like the Apatosaurus louise , a giant size and eating plants in the Mesozoic era (mid-century).

According to Dr. Wikinson, it is not because of the huge size of these dinosaurs that are of interest but also that the small living creatures inside that produce methane gas.

Methane is known to be a 'greenhouse gas' that absorbs infrared radiation from the Sun, keeping it in the Earth's atmosphere and causing temperatures to rise.

Previous studies suggest that the Earth was 10 degrees C hotter than in the Mesozoic period.

With the knowledge that poultry emissions currently play a major role in global methane levels, scientists have used current data to estimate dinosaurs that could affect gas. post like.

Their calculations took into account the dinosaur estimates of the time and used assessments that relate to animal index and the amount of methane released by animals.

At present, the amount of methane released is about 500 million tons per year from natural sources such as wild animals, human activities such as raising milk and taking meat.

Dr. Wikinson said that dinosaurs were not the only animals that produced methane at the time but also from other sources and the level of methane at that time could be much higher than now.