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How extinction of dinosaurs reshaped earth’s entire landscape
After dinosaurs' extinction 66 million years ago, forests expanded and stabilized sediments, causing rivers in the western US to develop broad meanders, researchers found.
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The Dinos’ Demise Gave Rivers Their Shape
Dinosaurs were the architects of entire ecosystems on Earth. Leaf-munching, ground-trampling, and soil-uprooting by herds of large herbivores like Tricerotops and Edmontosaurus kept Cretaceous forests in check, helping to maintain open savannas that would otherwise have been thick with trees. This in turn likely had a profound effect on how rivers flowed across landscapes, both while the dinosaurs were alive and after they went extinct in an ast…
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Ju-young = Dinosaurs had a huge impact on the Earth before going extinct 66 million years ago, and the sudden extinction had a wide-ranging impact, including on river systems...
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How extinction of dinosaurs reshaped earth’s entire landscape
The reptiles had such an "immense" impact on the planet that their sudden exit led to wide-scale changes.
After the dinosaurs went extinct, rivers in western North America changed character remarkably quickly. A new study offers a surprising explanation: the dinosaurs themselves kept the landscape in check. Geologists had long observed a sharp transition between rock types just before and just after the mass extinction at the K-Pg boundary (the […] Want to know more about science? Read the latest articles on Scientias.nl.
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