Moises Daugherty posted an update in the group Discovery 3 years ago
Researchers, Based On Pollen And Leaf Fossils, Are Indicating That The Dinosaur Killing Asteroid Caused Modern Day Tropical Rainforests To Emerge. And This Was Probably By One Or More Mechanisms: The Killing Of The Dinosaurs That Impacted The Ecosystem; Via The Nutrient-Rich Ash Deposits; Or The Preferential Extinction Of Conifer Species.
The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Created the Amazon Rain Forest – Scientific AmericanFossilized pollen and leaves reveal that the meteorite that caused the extinction of nonavian dinosaurs also reshaped South America?s plant communities to yield the planet?s largest rain forest