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Science, the study also posits that the same asteroid created all of the Americas’ tropical rainforests.
Around 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide meteor struck what is now the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Named the Chicxulub impactor, the meteor produced clouds of dust and ash and catapulted fragments of rock into the sky, triggering widespread wildfires.
Over time, the devastating impact drove the extinction of around 75 percent of all plant and animal species on the planet, including all terrestrial dinosaurs. The disaster also drastically changed the environment across the globe.
But its effect on tropical forests is less clear compared to temperate ecosystems.
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Modern rainforests were born when the dinosaurs died, a new paper explains
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The same asteroid impact that wiped off the dinosaurs likely allowed the rainforests of today to evolve, a new paper explains.
Image credits Thanapat Pirmphol.
The end of the Cretaceous Period is marked by a hugely violent event: the extinction of the dinosaurs at the hands of Chicxulub. That story has been threaded and re-threaded, but now, researchers are exploring a new possible consequence of the impact. According to a new paper, this event allowed the lush forests that currently cover Earth’s tropical regions to form.