Posts Tagged ‘asteroid strike’

WFS News: Fossil clues to aftermath of dinosaur asteroid strike

Rapid recovery of Patagonian plant–insect associations after the end-Cretaceous extinction Michael P. Donovan,, Ari Iglesias,, Peter Wilf,, Conrad C. Labandeira, & N. Rubén Cúneo The Southern Hemisphere may have provided biodiversity refugia after the Cretaceous/Palaeogene (K/Pg) mass extinction. However, few extinction and recovery studies have been conducted in the terrestrial realm using well-dated macrofossil sites that […]

How deep sea creatures survive asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs : World Fossil Society News

WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev, A team led by experts at Cardiff University has provided new evidence to explain why deep sea creatures were able to survive the catastrophic asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65m years ago. Like the dinosaurs themselves, giant marine reptiles, invertebrates and microscopic organisms became extinct after […]