Roughly three-fourths of the planet’s species, most notably non-avian dinosaurs, were wiped out.
The catastrophe may have even helped flowering plants blossom into the dominant green things they are today.
“It’s just bizarre to think that flowering plants survived K-Pg when dinosaurs didn’t,” said Jamie Thompson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Bath and one of the authors of the study.
Flowering plants are known to scientists as angiosperms.
But they rapidly diversified as mass extinction loomed.
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