In fact, merely 300,000 years after the collision - an extremely short amount of time, evolutionarily speaking - the amount of mammal species had doubled, compared to how many were around before the asteroid.
Chicxulub Impact Crater in the Gulf of Mexico - the site where the deadly asteroid fell 66 million years ago, releasing the same amount of energy as 100 million nuclear bombs in the process - to see how life evolved in the moments afterwards.
Well, the biggest advantage that mammals had over non-avian dinosaurs was size. Around 66 million years ago, mammals were extremely small, compared to today’s standards. In fact, the ones that survived the asteroid were likely the same size or smaller than an average house cat,
Chicxulub Impact Crater in the Gulf of Mexico - the site where the deadly asteroid fell 66 million years ago, releasing the same amount of energy as 100 million nuclear bombs in the process - to see how life evolved in the moments afterwards.
Well, the biggest advantage that mammals had over non-avian dinosaurs was size. Around 66 million years ago, mammals were extremely small, compared to today’s standards. In fact, the ones that survived the asteroid were likely the same size or smaller than an average house cat,
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