How climate change turned a meat-eater into a bone-cruncher?
In response to a climate crisis around 56 million years ago, a meat-eating predator, Dissacus praenuntius, began consuming bones. Rutgers University scientists analysed fossilised teeth and discovered the animal evolved due to scarcity during Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), a period marked by climate change. "What happened during...PETM mirrors what’s happening today," a researcher said.