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Flowers! | EurekAlert! Science News

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VIDEO: What happened in the tropics when an asteroid hit the planet and how did it shape today's rainforests?
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Credit: Monica Carvalho
Tropical rainforests today are biodiversity hotspots and play an important role in the world's climate systems. A new study published today in
Science sheds light on the origins of modern rainforests and may help scientists understand how rainforests will respond to a rapidly changing climate in the future.
The study led by researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) shows that the asteroid impact that ended the reign of dinosaurs 66 million years ago also caused 45% of plants in what is now Colombia to go extinct, and it made way for the reign of flowering plants in modern tropical rainforests.

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