News Headline

Did dino-killing asteroid speed bird evolution?

Source
EarthSky

Publication Date
2017-09-28

A new study suggests that the asteroid-induced mass extinction 66 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs – known as the K-Pg event – led to an acceleration in the rate of genetic evolution among birds, the dinosaurs’ only remaining descendants.

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http://earthsky.org/earth/dinosaur-extinction-asteroid-speed-bird-evolution