{"id":210907,"date":"2025-04-08T18:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/life-recovered-rapidly-at-site-of-dino-killing-asteroid-a-hydrothermal-system-may-have-helped"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:03:18","slug":"life-recovered-rapidly-at-site-of-dino-killing-asteroid-a-hydrothermal-system-may-have-helped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/life-recovered-rapidly-at-site-of-dino-killing-asteroid-a-hydrothermal-system-may-have-helped","title":{"rendered":"Life recovered rapidly at site of dino-killing asteroid. A hydrothermal system may have helped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/life-recovered-rapidly-at-site-of-dino-killing-asteroid-a-hydrothermal-system-may-have-helped2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species.<\/p>\n<p>But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a literal hotbed for life, enriching the overlying ocean for at least 700,000 years, according to research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-58112-x\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> today in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered that a hydrothermal system created by the asteroid impact may have helped marine life flourish at the impact site by generating and circulating nutrients in the crater environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a literal hotbed for life, enriching the overlying ocean for at least 700,000 years, according to research published today in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}