Why didn’t the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs on Earth also lead to the extinction of all other living species?
In: Planetary Science
Something to add, is that there were a lot of big dead animals and plants – detritus. I’ve read some papers that argue that the bacteria and fungi we have today that eats detritus wasn’t as common back then therefore plenty of potential food not rotting. There was plenty of food for smaller animals to go around for a while.
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