[blam]

The fossils span a period of mass extinction and recovery that started more than 200 million years ago — a period some scientists blame in part on high levels of carbon dioxide that led to global warming. "

So...they're going to base this new study on something else that has not been proven? Dumb!

[wbill]

Yup. I re-read the article and saw where the National Geographic Society was funding the study. I immediately reached for the phone to cancel my subscription to their magazine, then realized that I didn't subscribe to that drivel, anyway.

Perhaps age has fuzzed my memory, but when I was a kid, I thought it was a good magazine. Read it in the dentist's office recently and found that it was a piece of eco-garbage. "Save the whales, save the baby seals, people are the root of all evil, blah blah blah.".

The photography was nice, though.