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The article mentions the Yucatan asteroid setoff a 5 million-year extinction event. I'm assuming this was due to a slow-reacting chain reaction of extinction ev
by Ancalagon 5y ago
The article mentions the Yucatan asteroid setoff a 5 million-year extinction event. I'm assuming this was due to a slow-reacting chain reaction of extinction events in the ecosphere? It wasn't actually directly due to the asteroid right? Those immediate effects would have gone away in a few decades I'm assuming?
- jacobolus 5y agoThe immediate effects were almost unimaginably dramatic. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-di...