Earth was likely around 18ºF warmer on average during the Mesozoic Era, with high levels of greenhouse gases, high humidity, and no permanent ice sheets like Antarctica and Greenland. The high ...

On Tuesday night, Rachel Maddow took aim at Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), who recently made some claims about modern science that have caught people’s attention. Maddow tore into Broun’s deeming ideas such ...

Did dinosaur flatulence on the part of sauropods like Apatosaurus warm the Earth? Possibly. At least, that’s the main takeaway from a paper published in the latest ...

IT SEEMS Uranus isn’t the only stinky gas giant in our solar system (12 May).Catching up on his New Scientist backlog, Jeff Dickens was drawn to Feedback’s discussion of the science of flatulent ...

A huge Allosaurus threatens a super-sized Diplodocus. Did such giant dinosaurs fart? We don't know. Photo by the author at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science It sounds like perfect ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It’s estimated cows emit almost one hundred million tons of methane a year. Since dinosaurs ate ...