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Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Formed Earth’s Rainforests – Nerdist
A team of scientists in Panama says that the Chicxulub impactor that wiped out the dinosaurs also gave rise to modern, flowering rainforests.
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period annihilated much of life on Earth. And while we know how that story goes, a team of scientists is now adding a new chapter. One defined by flowers. In fact, the scientists say the seminal space rock that bathed Earth in Dino death is precisely what allowed our home planet to first host the lush, blooming rainforests we know today.
The team of scientists, working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in…
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