New Colorado Fossil Record Documents Life's Rebound After Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction (4 of 12) (IMAGE)

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New Colorado Fossil Record Documents Life's Rebound After Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction (4 of 12)

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An overhead shot of selected plant fossils retrieved from Corral Bluffs. More than 6,000 leaves were collected as part of the study to help determine how and when Earth's forest rebounded after the mass extinction event. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 25, 2019 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by T. Lyson at Denver Museum of Nature & Science in Denver, CO, and colleagues was titled, "Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction."

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