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Life returned to crater of Cretaceous asteroid in the blink of an eye

In Summary : Usually, new studies of the dino-killing mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous provide another view into just how bloo...

In Summary :

Usually, new studies of the dino-killing mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous provide another view into just how bloody awful it was. But if you’re a glass-half-full kind of person, it’s interesting to think about how quickly life recovered—not on timescales relevant to an individual organism, necessarily, but in terms of species and ecosystems.A research cruise recently drilled a rock core into the Chicxulub Crater where an asteroid fell 66 million years ago. Coring the deeper rock helped show test models of the impossibly jello-like behavior of the bedrock during the impact, but there are also sedimentary rocks on top that were formed some time after the collision. [...]

kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1315801

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