Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid crashed on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, throwing up a cloud of dust that enveloped the planet in darkness for at least several months. Scientists generally accept that this killed the dinosaurs. A new study, published in Nature Ceoscience and led by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, establishes that the same event killed off some of the world's fish-but not all of them.
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