Meteorite impact no picnic for sharks either

Posted April 1, 2023

Around 66 million years ago, a massive meteorite struck Earth, triggering a series of ecological disasters that wiped out T. rex along with all the other non-bird dinosaurs. For most of us, that’s old news – and might be as much as we know about this dramatic time. But scientists, of course, dig much deeper into the past, investigating exactly how mass extinctions played out and how they affected different groups of organisms. Now, new research explores this same extinction event from the view of another ancient and famously toothy group: sharks, skates, and rays.

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