Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs allowed flowers to thrive in a post-apocalyptic world
When you purchase through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . The giant asteroid that snuffed out the dinosaur at the end of theCretaceous period(145 million to 66 million years ago ) left efflorescence relatively unscathed , and the blossom fly high in the backwash , a novel bailiwick has found . terra firma lost three - twenty-five percent of its coinage , including all non - avian dinosaur , when an asteroid struck Mexico ’s Yucatán Peninsula66 million years ago ....