#Bestof2021: 1/2: The Amazon forest was born when the dinosaurs died. The Birth of the Amazon Forest. Carlos Jaramillo, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. @ScienceMagazine (Originally aired July 12, 2021).
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🗓️ 30 December 2023
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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Panamá
The Birth of the Amazon Forest.
Extinction at the end-Cretaceous and the origin of modern, neotropical rainforests
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute: Panamá
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6537/63
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| 0:29.2 | Code at UK. This is CBS, I on the world. I'm John Bachelor and it's a pleasure to welcome Carlos |
| 0:40.3 | Harmio, Professor Carlosmillo, who's publishing with his colleagues in Nature magazine |
| 0:48.7 | a new revelation about the transformation of the tropical forest over the last 66 million years ago. |
| 0:58.0 | That transformation explains why the richness of the tropical jungle today, the mixed richness and where it came from. |
| 1:07.0 | The clue is the dinosaurs. |
| 1:09.0 | Professor, a very good day to you, you're in Sala Monica, Spain, and we're speaking of the triple canopy |
| 1:15.2 | jungle of Colombia and Amazon and the Panama area. Your home is in Panama. So this is both the 21st century and then 66 million |
| 1:27.4 | years ago when the asteroid comet struck that part of the world. What did the |
| 1:33.2 | forest, what did the tropical forest look like right before the |
| 1:37.6 | asteroid strike changed everything? Good day to you. |
| 1:40.4 | Yeah, good morning. So let's go back to the're. Good morning. |
| 1:43.0 | So let's go back to the morning of a day 66 million years ago. |
| 1:48.0 | And imagine you are walking in the tropical South America. |
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