Did dinosaurs fart?

Sure! Similar to canine, some bugs, and even millipedes, dinosaurs undoubtedly would have handed fuel.

Not solely did Brontosaurus and Triceratops make wind, however they might have made plenty of it. A lot, in truth, that it affected the complete Earth and its local weather. One examine discovered that dinosaurs’ ‘emissions’ had been an necessary think about conserving the planet heat and moist in the course of the Mesozoic Period (250 to 65 million years in the past).

Equally, farts and burps form our fashionable local weather: emissions from livestock account for greater than 10 per cent of all anthropogenic greenhouse fuel emissions immediately.

Requested by: Chiedza McNab, Liverpool

Learn extra:

• Do birds fart?
• For those who maintain in a fart, the place does it go?
• What occurs in my physique after I fart?
• Does all people fart?

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