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This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata. Got a minute?

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Sixty-six million years ago, the Chicxulub meteorite, a rock over six miles wide, slammed into the Earth.

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And you know what happened next, the dinos disappeared.

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But Benjamin Blonder, a plant ecologist at the University of Arizona, says to consider the big picture for a moment.

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"You have to think not only about the charismatic animals which are walking on the planet, but also all of the resources on which those animals are depending. "

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Say, for example, vegetation.

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Blonder has been giving those overshadowed impact victims their due.

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After all, more than half the plant species in temperate North America perished along with the dinosaurs.

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And the type of plants that thrived after the impact were different as well.

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Blonder and his colleagues studied thousands of fossil leaves from North Dakota, spanning about a million years both before and after the impact.

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They measured leaf mass per area, a proxy for how much energy a plant invests in its leaves,

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and the density of veins, which indicates how fast-growing the leaf is.

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Sturdy, slow-growing leaves tend to be evergreens, whereas flimsy, fast-growing leaves are a hallmark of deciduous plants.

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Turns out that after the impact, the fossil record has more deciduous-looking leaves,suggesting that fast-growing, more adaptable seasonal plants beat out the competition after the big hit.

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The study appears in the journal PLoS Biology.

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And it kinda makes me wonder if we haven't overlooked another theory for why the dinos died out, maybe they just didn't care for the taste of deciduous leaves?

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Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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