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Fossil fishes buried in the desert reveal a missing chapter in marine history
- June 4, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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When an asteroid struck Earth about 66 million years ago, it ended the age of dinosaurs and transformed life across the planet. The effects of that catastrophe are visible in the fossil record on land, but scientists know far less about what happened to fishes in the seas during the first few million years after the extinction.
Originally published at Phys.org