Study unravels why certain fishes went extinct 65 million years ago
Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 08:42
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Large size and a fast bite spelled doom for bony fishes during the last mass extinction 65 million years ago, according to a new study published 31 March 2009 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Today, those same features characterise large predatory bony fishes, such as tuna and billfishes, that are currently in decline and at risk of extinction themselves, said Matt Friedman, author of the study and a graduate student in evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago...