Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Trilobites wiped out by global warming?

The "great dying" about 250 million years ago had been blamed on an asteroid strike. Now, it looks like it was caused by something else – climate change.

Animals and plants both on land and in the sea were dying at the same time, and apparently from the same causes — too much heat and too little oxygen,” Ward said in a statement.

Probably those ancient reptiles joy-riding around in their SUVs.

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