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There is a rainbow after a flood, and then the promise of new growth. The Cretaceous biosphere, which had developed over so long a time and had been so stable, was replaced by the beginnings of a new ecosystem that, over the tens of millions of years, slowly evolved into our familiar world of sheep and cows, lions and zebras, elephants, whales and people. A new world, diverse and complex, was built on the ruins of the old.
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Further Reading
Stahl, B.J. 1985. Vertebrate history: problems in evolution. New York: Dover.
Stanley, S.M. 1989. Earth and life through time, 2nd edn. New York: W.H. Freeman.
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Nisbet, E.G. (1991). The new world. In: Living Earth. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5965-4_11
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