Life rebounded fast after the dinosaur-killing asteroid

34:17after the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. This is out of University of Texas at Austin. It was published in geology. And basically what they're saying is new research reveals that microscopic plankton right? >> Mhm. Uh began evolving into new species within just a few thousand years, possibly under 2,000, uh after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs that we all remember from high school was 66 million years ago. Um and we all remember the amber from Dr. Hammond's staff in Jurassic Park where they extracted amphibian DNA dino DNA and merged it with amphibian DNA. But the idea here is that there was not the expectation that life after such

34:59a catastrophic impact uh would re-arise so quickly. It's an interesting way in which scientists have actually uh found this to be true. Yes, this is actually really cool. So, you know, 66 million years ago an asteroid hit Mexico effectively and created the Chicxulub crater. All the dinosaurs died. There was massive extinction all over the planet. There was a bunch of climate change. Um it was pretty bad. And what this paper is suggesting is that within 2,000 years there was a new species of plankton that had evolved. And 2,000 years is a blink when it comes