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Meteorite That Doomed Dinosaurs Remade Forests

By Guest PostDecember 18, 2014Sciencedinosaurs, evergreen angiosperms, evergreen flowering plants, extinction event, fossilized leaves, meteorite impact

The impact decimated slow-growing evergreens and made way for fast-growing, deciduous plants, UA researchers say, and that provides an explanation for those fall colors.

The meteorite impact that spelled doom for the dinosaurs 66 million years ago decimated the evergreens among the flowering plants to a much greater extent than their deciduous peers, according to a study led by UA researchers. The results are published in the journal PLoS Biology. (more…)

Worms Among First Animals To Surface After K-T Boundary Extinction Event, CU-Led Study Finds

A new study of sediments laid down shortly after an asteroid plowed into the Gulf of Mexico 65.5 million years ago, an event that is linked to widespread global extinctions including the demise of big dinosaurs, suggests that lowly worms may have been the first fauna to show themselves following the global catastrophe. (more…)

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Meteorite That Doomed Dinosaurs Remade Forests

Worms Among First Animals To Surface After K-T Boundary Extinction Event, CU-Led Study Finds