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?
How Did Plants Survive the Asteroid That Wiped Out the Dinosaurs?
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