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Flowering plants survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid – and may outlive us

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par Jamie Thompson, Postdoctoral Evolutionary Biologist, University of Bath

If you looked up 66 million years ago you might have seen, for a split second, a bright light as a mountain-sized asteroid burned through the atmosphere and smashed into Earth. It was springtime and the literal end of an era, the Mesozoic.

If you somehow survived the initial impact, you would have witnessed the devastation that followed. Raging firestorms, megatsunamis, and a…

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