The ocean is hot like 'oil cauldron' under dinosaurs

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If you go back to the dinosaur period, don't fool yourself into the sea. A new study from ancient sediments and fossils has shown that the tropical Atlantic waters have a temperature of 32-41.6 degrees Celsius at 100 million to 84 million years ago.

Also in this area, today the temperature is only about 23.8 - 27.7 degrees C. Water will become very uncomfortable for most people at about 40 degrees C.

" Ancient temperatures fall outside the graphs we have observed before ," said Karen Bike, a paleontologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

At that time, the atmosphere accumulated more CO2 - substances that acted as heat traps. However, scientists still do not know what could make the oceans so hot. Climate models taking into account the increase in CO2 content cannot produce this result either, Bice said.

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