‘Most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth’ is in MOROCCO – where killer dinos roamed 100million years ago
EXPERTS claim to have discovered "the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth".
Their study into ancient fossils provides an insight into Africa's age of dinosaurs.
Professor Martill concluded: “This is the most comprehensive piece of work on fossil vertebrates from the Sahara in almost a century, since the famous German palaeontologist Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach published his last major work in 1936.”
Why did the dinosaurs die out?
Here's what you need to know...
- The dinosaur wipe-out was a sudden mass extinction event on Earth
- It wiped out roughly three-quarters of our planet's plant and animal species around 66million years ago
- This event marked the end of the Cretaceous period, and opened the Cenozoic Era, which we're still in today
- Scientists generally believe that a massive comet or asteroid around 9 miles wide crashed into Earth, devastating the planet
- This impact is said to have sparked a lingering "impact winter", severely harming plant life and the food chain that relied on it
- More recent research suggests that this impact "ignited" major volcanic activity, which also led to the wiping-out of life
- Some research has suggested that dinosaur numbers were already declining due to climate changes at the time
- But a study published in March 2019 claims that dinosaurs were likely "thriving" before the extinction event
In other news, an ancient decapitated skeleton buried in an kneeling position has been discovered in central China.
Analysis of a medieval mass grave has confirmed that the 48 individuals died during the Black Death in the UK.
And, a mysterious ring of mammoth bones built by our ancient ancestors has left scientists puzzled.
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