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Environment
Thomas Hochwarter

SHOCKING: Tree wrecked dinosaur extinction slowed down evolution of plants | Mind Blowing Facts

The large, woody fruits of the Manicaria saccifera palm that depend on large animals for their dispersal. (John Dransfield, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew/Zenger)

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 herbivores for around 25 million years dinosaurs were wiped out substantially slowed the evolution of new plant species.

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