Before the asteroid, our planet’s forests were massive conifers and ferns.[*3] But out of the ash, in place of those ancient forests, fruiting trees and their canopies formed brand-new ecosystems. Flowering trees produced, at regular intervals, vast bounties of fruits on their terminal branches—fat bulbs of sweet and sugary flesh. Fruits. Bugs. Moss. New things that ate the fruits and bugs. New things that ate the new things.
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