Around 60% of all plant species on Earth died with the nonavian dinosaurs 65 million years ago, when a rogue asteroid struck what is now the Gulf of Mexico. How did the remaining 40% survive?
Related Posts
Fossil beetles found in a Botswana diamond mine help us to reconstruct the distant past
Sandiso Mnguni, University of the Witwatersrand When most people think of fossils they probably picture bones. But there’s…
We Live In a World of Ants.
A group of ancient wasps decided they’d had enough of flying and lost their wings; what happened next…
We need a single list of all life on Earth – and most taxonomists now agree on how to start
Sumruay Rattanataipob/Shutterstock Stephen Garnett, Charles Darwin University and Aaron M. Lien, University of Arizona Species lists are one…
New Study Reveals How Neurons Control Feeding Patterns in Mice
At a Glance Animals and humans have internal biological clocks that regulate their daily activities, such as sleeping,…