End of the dinosaurs gave rise to the modern 'Age of Fishes,' researchers find
Tuesday, June 30, 2015 - 05:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
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.