Life Recovered Faster Than Expected After Dinosaur Extinction
恐龍滅絕後，生命恢復的速度超乎預期
Life on Earth has an incredible ability to bounce back, even after the most devastating events.
地球上的生命擁有驚人的復原能力，即使在經歷最毀滅性的事件後亦然。
New research on the 66-million-year-old asteroid impact that caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs shows that life recovered much faster than we once thought.
關於六千六百萬年前導致恐龍滅絕的小行星撞擊事件，新的研究顯示，生命恢復的速度比我們之前認為的要快得多。
By using Helium-3 isotope dating to track space dust, scientists discovered that new species of planktonic foraminifera appeared in just 2,000 years, not the 30,000 years previously estimated.
科學家利用氦-3同位素測年法追蹤太空塵埃，發現浮游有孔蟲的新物種僅在兩千年內就出現了，而非之前估計的三萬年。
Surprisingly, the Chicxulub crater acted as an oasis, where hydrothermal activity provided the nutrients needed for life to thrive.
令人驚訝的是，希克蘇魯隕石坑充當了綠洲的角色，那裡的熱液活動為生命的繁衍提供了必需的養分。
While full ecosystem complexity took about 10 million years to return, this rapid initial recovery highlights the resilience of nature.
儘管生態系統的全面複雜性耗時約一千萬年才得以復原，但這種初期的快速恢復凸顯了自然的韌性。
