A new study suggests that climate change can also affect dead animals. 183 million years ago, rising global temperatures and rapid climate change may have caused fossilization conditions in the oceans that play a major role in preserving the soft and delicate parts of dead marine animals.
Researchers have discovered the first evidence of dinosaur respiratory infection, using the fossilized remains of a young diplodocid - a large, herbivorous sauropod dinosaur with long neck. The specimen was discovered in southwest Montana, US, dating back to the Late Jurassic Period of the Mesozoic Era.
Giant, long-necked sauropods, believed to be among the largest terrestrial animals ever to have existed, preferred to inhabit Earth's warmer and more tropical regions, suggesting the animal may have possessed distinct physiology from other dinos, as per a new study