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RhynoD t1_j6pi2q5 wrote

I think that hypothesis more accurately explains why reptiles did not rise back up to the dominant roles that mammals filled. The fungi were fed in part by the massive die-off of plants and animals following the meteor.

There are also some evidence to suggest that a mass extinction due to natural climate change at the time was already beginning and the meteor cranked what was already a huge ecological upheaval to 11.

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