Global warming implicated in dinosaur extinction | Howard Lee

New technique for measuring ancient temperatures finds two pulses of climate warming at the end of the CretaceousIn a paper published on Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, scientists from the University of Michigan and the University of Florida show that there were big jumps in climate warming when the dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous. This brings the end-Cretaceous mass extinction in line with the other mass extinction events, which occurred at times of abrupt and