As the forests if recovered from the fires in the time of dinosaurs?

There are 66 million years ago, the forests recovered of the fires the same way today, according to a team of researchers at McGill University and the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Canada.

The research â€" which began with the excavation of fossil plants preserved in rocks deposited in the last days of the age of the dinosaurs â€" found that, in some of them, there was an abundant record of fossilized coal.

The excavations may reveal more information about the climate of our planet in prehistory. Studies are still being developed, but there is already one conclusion: the annual average temperature in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, was 10 to 12 C warmer than today, being six times greater than rainfall. These features did not prevent, however, that the recovery of forests was equal to that of our days.

"In the excavation of fossil plants preserved in rocks deposited in the last days of the age of the dinosaurs, some of them [were] preserved with abundant fossilized carbon, and others without him," said Hans Larsson, one of the researchers. "From this, we can reconstruct the Cretaceous forests were like with and without the disturbance of fires."

The diversity of plants and animals can be affected by forest fires, and the discovery will help scientists understand it immediately before the dinosaurs being extinct. The study was published in the Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeocology, according to the Red Orbit.

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