Wednesday 26 July 2017

Large-mouthed fish was top predator after mass extinction

(University of Zurich) The food chains recovered more rapidly than previously assumed after Earth's most devastating mass extinction event about 252 million years ago as demonstrated by the fossilized skull of a large predatory fish called Birgeria americana discovered by paleontologists from the University of Zurich in the desert of Nevada.

from EurekAlert! - Archaeology http://ift.tt/2tJGCiB

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