Sauropods
could have possibly produced enough of the greenhouse gas, Methane, to warm the
climate millions of years ago. Dave Wilkinson said, that a mathematical model
suggests that the microbes living in sauropod dinosaurs may have produced
enough methane to have an important effect on the Mesozoic climate. The microbes helped the sauropods by fermenting the
plants that they ate. Recent studies have been conducted on animals in order to
derive equations that predicted the methane output of animals and how it is
related to the animals' sizes. It was proven that methane emissions from
Sauropods were around 520 million tons per year. The study's conclusions
show that microbes and methane are extremely important to the global climate.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120507102324.htm
Hey. Did you know nature is neat only if we take care of it? This is a cool article on dinosaurs. The fact that their farts can be the cause of higher temperatures throughout the world today blows my mind. Seeing the fact that we have to bear the affects of certain things that occurred before we were even thought of being born is crazy. I dislike the fact that we can't fix some of these issues isn't neat at all to me. The way I see it is if we want a neat nature for our following generations, we have to neatly prepare to take care of our environmental. On an ending note, dinosaurs are neat but I respect the distance we have between us seeing they are scary and also neat at the same time.
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