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About 65 million years ago, after dinosaurs died, fungi may have proliferated as forests filled with dead plants left behind by the mass extinction

Extinction Dinosaur Berry

When a mass extinction transforms an ecosystem, the organisms that survive can find themselves in a very different world. The asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous Period disrupted ecosystems and left large amounts of dead organic material. Following the event, fungi could have thrived in environments where there was an abundance of food.

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