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Something Ate the Dinosaurs After the Asteroid Killed Them, Scientists Say

Chicxulub kicked off an “impact winter,” resulting in a planet filled with dead organic matter.

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The dinosaurs had a good run and a brutal end that, according to new research, somehow got even more brutal after they died. Because while the asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago wiped out most large life on the planet, it apparently created ideal conditions for fungi to inherit the Earth, feeding on the global buffet of dead dinos.

According to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found evidence that massive fungal blooms spread across the globe in the aftermath of the Chicxulub asteroid impact that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, essentially........

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