University of Cape Town https://refractor.io/tag/university-of-cape-town/ University of Cape Town en-AU Fri, 31 Jan 2020 17:48:15 GMT Fossil tracks suggest dinosaurs lived in a "land of fire" https://refractor.io/science/fossil-dinosaurs-mass-extinction-lava/ Reconstruction of the environment set alight by a volcanic flow

A new study has found dinosaur footprints in sandstone embedded between fossilized lava dating back 183 million years in southern Africa. During this time in the early Jurassic period, a mass extinction was taking place and parts of the world were being transformed into a world of fire by rampant volcanism.

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]]> Fri, 31 Jan 2020 17:48:15 GMT https://refractor.io/science/fossil-dinosaurs-mass-extinction-lava/ Anthony Wood