Another life form that 'emerges' from asteroids that kill dinosaurs?

A paper published in the journal Geology says scientists have found surprising fossils in the Chicxublub crater, where the asteroid killing dinosaurs crashed to Earth 65 million years ago . The area is thought to be completely lifeless before the collision.

In these ancient specimens are numerous relatives of bacteria. While the great dinosaurs and 75% of the earth's creatures die, mysteriously, this spatial impact makes the tiny, silent but extremely important life form in the Earth's ecosystem, burst. powerful explosion.

Graphic images depicting how the tsunami turned craters into new nests gave them a bacterial home, which in turn caused them to rise stronger than before, spreading throughout the earth - (photo: Victor Leshyk).

In addition to bacteria, many phytoplankton and fungi also come to inhabit this "death zone," which, according to the team, could be swept up and sown by the tsunami. From this bizarre nest , the bacteria family revived stronger than before and then spread throughout the Earth.

Lead author Professor Kliti Grice of the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University (Australia) said that although the post-disaster environment is said to be extremely harsh for all life forms, the phytoplankton is still grow at a fast pace. The development of phytoplankton, together with a large shift in the supply of nutrients for life on earth, oxygen . creates a strong recovery of microbial life.

Therefore, to replace the death of the "monsters" named dinosaurs used to date from the end of the Three Gorges, through the Jurassic period, until the Cretaceous, the era of small "monsters" began. : it is different from cyanobacteria, anaerobic forms of sulfur bacteria and countless other forms of microorganisms. Although small, microorganisms are an integral part of shaping the face of the earth today.

What happens on the day of the asteroid death that kills dinosaurs is a big mystery that scientists have discovered a little bit more each day. Another study published in 2009 showed that a tsunami higher than 1,500 meters was created by the asteroid and devastated Earth. And perhaps it is also the tsunami that "seeded" the microorganisms that this research finds. Another study in 2019 estimated that the asteroid has hit Earth with the power of 10 billion atomic bombs.