Experts warn dinosaurs could make a return to Earth
High levels of carbon dioxide 294 million years ago created conditions that allowed reptiles to thrive, and the current climate change driven by pollution could recreate an environment conducive to their resurgence.
Researchers from the University of St Andrews have highlighted that warming global temperatures once enabled dinosaurs to flourish.
Dr Hana Jurikova said: "The end of the Late Palaeozoic ice age was a turning point in the evolution of life and the environment leading to the rise of reptiles. Now we know it was paced by CO2."
Her colleague Dr James Rae added: "CO2 emissions caused major global warming and sea level rise. And if left unchecked will do so again in future."
Dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago.
(QG - Source: Daily Star / Picture: © Pixabay)