Shark Diversity Unaffected When the Dinosaurs Were Wiped Out in Global Catastrophe

Selective extinction of apex predators suggests a shift to more generalist diets. A global catastrophe 66 million years ago led to the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs, and large marine reptiles like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. But what happened to the sharks? According to a study of sharks’

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Earth's ultimate survivors: Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs left sharks virtually unscathed - Study Finds

Scientists have discovered that sharks nearly went extinct 19 million years ago. It could be one of the biggest such mass extinction events since the disappearance of the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous

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Sharks Were Almost Wiped Out 19 Million Years Ago And We Still Don't Know Why

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