Monday, 7 October 2024

Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have led to the invention of 'ant agriculture'

The event that wiped out the dinosaurs wasn't all bad. The low-light environment caused by the meteor impact some 66 million years ago favored the spread of fungi that feed on organic matter, which was abundant at the time as plants and animals were dying in droves.

source https://phys.org/news/2024-10-asteroid-dinosaurs-ant-agriculture.html
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