Smaller Fishes Had a Better Chance of Avoiding Extinction (IMAGE)

University of Chicago Medical Center

Smaller Fishes Had a Better Chance of Avoiding Extinction

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Fossil herrings from the Eocene Green River Formation of the western United States where Colorado, Utah and Nevada meet. Herrings are one of the small-bodied groups of bony fishes that survived the end-Cretaceous extinction and persist to this day in marine environments.

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Photo by Matt Friedman

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