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Earth Recovered Quickly From Extinction Event

Posted by michael on from the dodo-bird-still-not-recovered dept.

jmoloug1 writes "Traditional theory is that the earth took up to 10 million years to recover from the dinosaur extinction event. However a newly discovered site has revealed that this estimate may be way off. CNN has the article describing how quickly a tropical rain forest grew after the catastrophic event 65 million years a go."

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  1. Re:Krakatau by cp99 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I agree with all of your post, bar one small point. I believe that the biggest eruption in civilised history occured at Taupo in New Zealand in 186 AD. While NZ wasn't inhabited at the time, it was recorded in China and Rome.

    If you look at a map of the North Island of New Zealand, you'll see a large lake (with great fishing). That's the caldera left behind.

    (Interesting link.)

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