16 September 2014
The impact decimated slow-growing evergreens and made way for fast-growing, deciduous plants, according to a study applying biomechanical analyses to fossilized leaves. The study provides much-needed evidence for how the extinction event unfolded in the plant communities at the time.
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/dwkdXwifL2s/140916141525.htm
