Farmers for rain in times of drought. Most of us experience of wanting the heavens to for our garden to be watered during an excessively dry spell. However, none of us can a prolonged period of rain lasting two million years. U.K. geologist and forensic scientist Alastair Ruffell has that 200-300 million years ago, before the single landmass of Pangea into continents, Earth see an era during which it non-stop for up to two million years. Dr Ruffell said this helped the development of flora and fauna all over the globe. He believes the precipitation may have been by a huge rise in humidity following a series of massive volcanic eruptions.
Dr Ruffell and his team their findings on research on strata of rock in the Eastern Alps in Europe in the 1970s and 80s. The data unusual layers in ancient rock that dated back over 200 million years. Ruffell said this to growing evidence that the wet period may have been, "the trigger that dinosaurs, and possibly the other members of our modern land-based fauna, to and dominate the land". He added: "It may have one of the most important events in the history of life, in terms of its role in not only the age of dinosaurs, but also the origins of most key classes that the modern fauna of…turtles, crocodiles, lizards and mammals."
