Cute Animal Video: Adorable Beagle Puppy Learns To Howl. Cute Animal Video: Basenji Tries To Sleep On Great Dane Dog. Cute animal Video: French Bulldog Plays with laughing babies. Cute Animal Video: Little Owl Plays Peek-A-Boo With Camera. BBC Nature - Dinosaur gases 'warmed the Earth' 7 May 2012Last updated at 10:43 By Ella Davies Reporter, BBC Nature Apatosaurus, formerly known as Brontosaurus, produced a lot of wind Giant dinosaurs could have warmed the planet with their flatulence, say researchers. British scientists have calculated the methane output of sauropods, including the species known as Brontosaurus.
By scaling up the digestive wind of horses, they estimate that the total population of dinosaurs, produced 520 million tonnes of gas annually. They suggest the gas could have been a key factor in the warm climate 150 million years ago. David Wilkinson from Liverpool John Moore's University, and colleagues from the University of London and the University of Glasgow published their results in the journal Current Biology. Sauropods, such as Apatosaurus louise (formerly known as Brontosaurus), were super-sized land animals that grazed on vegetation during the Mesozoic Era. Previous studies have suggested that the Earth was up to 10C (18F) warmer in the Mesozoic Era. Arabian Gulf.