Archive for March 17th, 2013

Dinosaur-Era Climate Change Study Suggests Reasons for Turtle Disappearance

The dry, barren prairie around Alberta’s Drumheller area was once a lush and subtropical forest on the shores of a large inland sea, with loads of wetlands inhabited by dinosaurs, turtles, crocodiles and small mammals. But that changed about 71-million-years ago, according to a new study by researchers Annie Quinney and Darla Zelenitsky in paleontology […]