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Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs had limited impact on sharks and rays, study shows

  • January 28, 2026 at 10:30 PM
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Asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs had limited impact on sharks and rays, study shows
A new study using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago caused only a modest decline in shark and ray species. The findings, published in the journal Current Biology, challenge previous understandings of how severely this mass extinction affected life in the oceans.

Originally published at Phys.org

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