According to evolution, the giant asteroid that took away the dinosaurs left flowering plans alive

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Joel Kontinen

According to evolution and its time scale, the giant asteroid that took out the dinosaurs in at the end of the Cretaceous period in 66 million years ago, did not wibe away the many species of flowering plants.

But some of them did succeed.

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Pester,  Patrick, 2023,  Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs allowed flowers to thrive in a post-apocalyptic world Live Science 18 September.