Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Life recovered rapidly at site of dino-killing asteroid. A hydrothermal system may have helped<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-04-life-recovered-rapidly-site-dino.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-04-life-rec</span><span class="invisible">overed-rapidly-site-dino.html</span></a> paper: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58112-x" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41467-025</span><span class="invisible">-58112-x</span></a></p><p>"the crater it left behind in the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/GulfOfMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GulfOfMexico</span></a> was a literal hotbed for life, enriching the overlying <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ocean</span></a> for at least 700,000 years... a <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/hydrothermal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hydrothermal</span></a> system created by the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/asteroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>asteroid</span></a> impact may have helped marine life flourish at the impact site by generating and circulating nutrients in the crater environment."</p>