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Fascinating: researchers in LA simulate a planetary mass extinction level event (#ELE) for the first time
Prof. Jarmila #Pittermann and Alex #Baer, two plant #biologists at #UCSantaCruz, examine ferns inside the #greenhouse where they simulated the conditions of the #Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event."
Only the strong survive
Spoiler: it wouldn't have been humans.
While 75% of of all species did not survive the ELE; ferns did.