TREE WRECKED: Dinosaur Extinction Slowed Down Evolution Of New Plants

The large, woody fruits of the Manicaria saccifera palm that depend on large animals for their dispersal. Note: This photo is from a press release. (John Dransfield, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Newsflash) The large, woody fruits of the Manicaria saccifera palm that depend on large animals for their dispersal. Note: This photo is from a press release. (John Dransfield, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Newsflash)
Copyrights: John Dransfield, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Newsflash

04 May 2022
The extinction of dinosaurs had a significant impact on the development of plants, a new study has shown. Experts at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) in the cities of Halle, Jena and Leipzig and at Leipzig University discovered that the absence of large...