What a 66-million-year old forest fire reveals about dinosaurs
During an expedition in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, a team of researchers from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, discovered the first fossil-record evidence of forest fire ecology - the regrowth of plants after a fire - revealing a snapshot of the ecology on earth just before the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. The researchers also found evidence that the region’s climate was much warmer and wetter than it is today.
The team of researchers include Emily Bamforth, Palaeontology and Evolutionary Developmental Biology at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, and Hans Larsson, Canada Research Chair in Macroevolution at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ and an Associate Professor at the Redpath Museum. Read more here.
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