Study shows climate change’s surprising toll on early dinosaurs

For years, scientists have puzzled over an odd gap in the fossil record for early dinosaurs: Even as dinosaurs spread through the most of the world 200 million years ago, some yet-unknown force kept them from colonizing the tropics. Now researchers may have found the explanation: Climate change. Exceedingly high levels of greenhouse gases appear to have rendered the Earth’s equatorial zones all bu

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2億年前、恐竜はものすごい速さで世界中に広がったのに、熱帯からは化石が発見されないのは何故なのか、古生物学者の長年の疑問だった。温室化ガスによる、気候変動により、赤道付近は生息不可能な状態だったらしい