Evolution didn’t wait long after the dinosaurs died

16:00 - 13 Feb 2026

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New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution's catastrophe response speed.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/evolution-dinosaurs-chicxulub-asteroid

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