8 years ago
Exit Dinosaurs, Enter Fishes
A pair of paleobiologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego have determined that the world’s most numerous and diverse vertebrates – ray-finned fishes – began their ecological dominance of the oceans 66 million years ago, aided by the mass extinction event that killed off dinosaurs.
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Scripps Oceanography graduate student Elizabeth Sibert describes how a mass extinction event helped launch the modern "age of fishes."
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