A Shark Mystery Millions of Years in the Making

June 3, 2021

A new study by Earth scientists from Yale University and the College of the Atlantic has turned up a massive die-off of sharks roughly 19 million years ago. Elizabeth Sibert, a Hutchinson Postdoctoral Associate in Yale’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences & the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (YIBS) is the lead author of the study, which appears in the journal Science. For more information, please click here for an article published by Yale News

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