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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Tue Jun 16, 2015, 12:42 PM Jun 2015

DiscoveryNews

Raging fires, droughts, food shortages and extreme climate change in the tropics 200 million years ago help explain why only a few scrappy species of dinos managed to survive there.

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Could A Fossilized Mosquito Resurrect Dinosaurs?

They've finally found a fossilized mosquito full of prehistoric blood! So a real "Jurassic Park" is right around the corner, right?

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Life miserable fir dinos in the tropics | Fossil mosquito w/ blood meal found - video (Original Post) Panich52 Jun 2015 OP

Raging fires, droughts, food shortages and extreme climate change AlbertCat Jun 2015 #1

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1. Raging fires, droughts, food shortages and extreme climate change

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 01:16 PM

Jun 2015

Oh I see they were in New Mexico.

So nothing's changed.....