Recent Examples on the WebThe researchers used all these methods across thousands of samples from more than 40 sites in Colombia to establish a broad, regional picture of how the neotropics looked before and after the asteroid impact. Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2021 Amid the roughly six-million-year recovery, the flowering plants that reign supreme in today’s neotropics quickly came to account for 85 to 90 percent of plant diversity, says Jaramillo. Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2021