While the extinction affected some flower species, most lineages survived and the catastrophe may have helped them become a dominant form of plant life.
Soil is estimated to be home to 90% of the world’s fungi, 85% of plants and more than 50% of bacteria, making it the world’s most species-rich habitat
We are stumbling — seemingly oblivious — into the bared teeth of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch driven by humanity itself. We are walking straight into it and pretending it’s not here
The claim is the Tanis creatures were killed and entombed on the actual day a giant asteroid struck Earth.
The native plant movement and backyard habitat projects seek to re-create livable natural spaces for endangered pollinators and other animals.
A meteor 66 million years ago killed and buried fish, mammals, insects and a dinosaur, the first victims of Earth’s last mass extinction. The death scene of the hour of impact has been excavated at an unprecedented fossil site in North Dakota.
When the Earth caught fire, killing the dinosaurs, fresh water ecosystems did ok.
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