The survival of the African baobab tree is dependent upon monkeys and baboons who eat many of the seeds - so many in fact that some seeds are not chewed. The unchewed seeds pass through their bodies and are pooped out into the desert. These seeds are then able to sprout and draw nutrients from the pile of excrement.
Dinosaurs went out with bang, say bones
Dinosaurs went out with bang, say bones Palaeontologists believe that at the time a huge
meteorite crashed to Earth 65 million years ago, many dinosaurs
were already gone or in decline. However, at a meeting of the
Geological Society of America last month, 2 independent groups of
palaeontologists said that collections from the fossil fields of
Montana and the Dakotas showed that the dinosaurs were doing just
fine until the big meteorite came by. Unfortunately, though,
palaeontologists still cannot say for sure whether the extinction
of the dinosaurs was rapid or slow after the impact of the
meteorite. 12 NOVEMBER 1999, P. 1281
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