The end-Cretaceous extinction unleashed modern shark diversity

Thursday, August 2, 2018 - 10:20 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A study that examined the shape of hundreds of fossilized shark teeth suggests that modern shark biodiversity was triggered by the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, about 66 million years ago.

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