Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What died in the aftermath of the asteroid impact 66 million years ago? Almost everything! About 99.999 percent of individual animals and plants died, and 75 percent of all species went extinct. But not quite everything perished. Here are three examples of survivors.
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