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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 American

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-asteroid-that-killed-the-dinosaurs-created-the-amazon-rain-forest/

Fossilized 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