New paper published on exciting research from the Bever Lab! The asteroid impact marking the end Cretaceous famously shaped the modern biota by killing off some lineages, such as non-avian dinosaurs, while promoting the success of others, such as mammals. In this study, we examined the hypothesis that the end Cretaceous had surprisingly little effect on freshwater fish, whose survivorship during climatic stress is of increasing interest as society confronts the implications of our current biodiversity crisis. A synthesis of genomic and fossil data indicates that while global patterns of freshwater fish diversity remained relatively stable across the event, localized drops in diversity took more than 100K years to recover.
Link to the publication: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.1025
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