Marine Predators: Bigger in Size With an Appetite to Match (IMAGE)

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Marine Predators: Bigger in Size With an Appetite to Match

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An infographic depicting results by Adiël Klompmaker et al., which find that the size of marine predators has increased over the past 500 million years, while the size of prey has remained relatively constant. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 16 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.A. Klompmaker at University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Increase in predator-prey size ratios throughout the Phanerozoic history of marine ecosystems."

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