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The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Birthed Today’s Rainforests – WIRED
Plant fossils from Columbia reveal the forests of the Cretaceous period were sparser and less humid than their modern-day counterparts.
Colombias rainforest looked very different 66 million years ago. At present, the humid and biodiverse ecosystem is jam-packed with plants and is covered in a thick, light-blocking canopy of leaves and branches. Notably, there are no dinosaurs. But prior to the dinosaurs going away with the Chicxulub impact, signaling the end of the Cretaceous period, things looked very different. The areas plant coverage was relatively sparse, and a bevy of conifers called it home.
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