Wild theories suggest that about 66 million years ago, an asteroid struck Earth, causing the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. Research indicated that the dinosaurs’ disappearance allowed other plants and animals, such as grapes, to thrive. Recent findings of fossilized grape seeds in Colombia, Panama, and Peru, dating back 19 to 60 million years, demonstrated their origins in ancient forests. Fabiany Herrera, the lead study author and an assistant curator of paleobotany at the Field Museum in Chicago, said in a statement to CNN, “These were the oldest grapes ever found in this part of the wor…