Fossils show widespread plant extinctions after asteroid wiped out dinosaurs
September 26, 2023
September 26, 2023
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Sept. 26 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news:
By Matthew Carroll
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid the size of San Francisco crashed into a shallow sea off the coast of modern-day Mexico and plunged the world into an extinction event that killed off as much as 75% of life, including the dinosaurs.
But a debate remains about how the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction (K-Pg) i . . .
By Matthew Carroll
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid the size of San Francisco crashed into a shallow sea off the coast of modern-day Mexico and plunged the world into an extinction event that killed off as much as 75% of life, including the dinosaurs.
But a debate remains about how the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction (K-Pg) i . . .