
Dinosaurs Have Been Poisoned!
Editorials News | Jan-16-2020
Scientists say that in the latest Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction that occurred 66 million years ago is guilty of a huge asteroid, the size of a small city. Heavenly boulder fell into the Gulf of Mexico and has caused an incredible explosion of power comparable with the power of 10 billion nuclear bombs during the Second World War. However, recent studies show that dinosaurs were already dead by the time of the Apocalypse. A study published this week in the journal Nature Communications, involves the mass poisoning of raptors with mercury. Analysis of the fossils of marine mollusks of the Cretaceous period showed a significant increase in the amount of mercury in fossil remains.
Nowadays the largest source of mercury is actively operating coal-fired plants and gold mines. Their work incredibly severely pollutes the environment to this toxic metal. When the researchers compared the levels of mercury from fossil with those that were collected in a modern place of industrial mercury pollution in the Shenandoah Valley, their levels was roughly equivalent.
Scientist’s claim that this anomaly, with deposits of mercury was found in sediments before, but they have never been found inside of fossil. Thus, a new method in the future may help the study of mass extinctions and upheavals in the geological data.
We will remind that earlier the discovery in Antarctica proves the existence of the supercontinent on Earth. At the same time, the Ukrainian polar explorers found in Antarctica “footprint” of unknown birds.
By: Saksham Gupta
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