Shark Diversity Unaffected When the Dinosaurs Were Wiped Out in Global Catastrophe
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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’
Why didn't sharks suffer the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs and the megalodon? - Quora
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Prehistoric fish with a mouth twice as large as a great white ruled waters 360 million years ago
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Cretaceous–Paleogene Extinction Event
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Shark evolution: a 450 million year timeline
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Fossil teeth suggest shark diversity was unaffected by Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event
What (giant) sharks actually existed in the Age of Dinosaurs? - Quora
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Meteorite impact no picnic for sharks either - Understanding Evolution
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Nature's ultimate survivors: Sharks lived through extinction event that killed dinosaurs on Earth - India Today
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Forget diamonds - sharks are forever (and survived the dino extinction) - Scimex
Why have sharks survived since the time of the dinosaurs, but other large ocean creatures such as mosasaurs and plesiosaurs have not? - Quora
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The Great Permian Extinction: When all life on Earth
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Did any dinosaur survive the asteroid, or did every one of them go extinct? I can't think of any fish or reptiles like plesiosaurs and pliosaurs in our world today. : r/Dinosaurs
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Sharks' Diversity Remained Static When End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction Wiped Out Dinosaurs: Study
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