Study shows it took the Amazon as we know it over 6 million years to form

Mongabay
Jun 7, 2021, 6:01 am248 pts
The asteroid impact 66 million years ago that killed more than 75% of all species on Earth, including all non-avian dinosaurs, triggered an ecological catastrophe that took the neotropical rainforests around 6 million years to recover from, according to a recent study published in Science. The mass extinction…

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