Fossil microbes show how some life bounced back after dino-killing impact
Within geologic blink of eye, hardy plankton were swimming in toxic waters above site
LIFE AND DEATH Rock samples collected from the Chicxulub crater during a drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year suggest that microbes returned to the site within hundreds of years of the dino-killing impact.
The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences