Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs allowed flowers to thrive in a post-apocalyptic world

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Scientists have discovered flowering plants were largely unscathed by the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event 66 million years ago, allowing them to take advantage of the new, dinosaur-free planet.

Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs allowed flowers to thrive in a post-apocalyptic world : Read more

 

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The current image on this article is not an image of flowers, or even plants. Those are crinoids... you know, animals related to sea stars