Meteorite that doomed dinosaurs remade forests
Wednesday, September 17, 2014 - 00:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The impact decimated slow-growing evergreens and made way for fast-growing, deciduous plants, according to a study applying biomechanical analyses to fossilized leaves. The study provides much-needed evidence for how the extinction event unfolded in the plant communities at the time.
