Styrian Fossils Show How Ur-Haie Defied Dino Deaths

There is little evidence today that Waidach in Salzburg and Gams in Styria were once underwater. However, researchers from the Natural History Museum (NHM) Vienna have recovered and analyzed around four tons of former seabed there. In the journal "PNAS," they demonstrate why sharks were able to survive the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs relatively well. They also identified nine new shark species in the region around 66 million ye…

Former seabeds from Styria and Salzburg show marked changes from bone fish to cartilage fish. Nine shark species from around 66 million years ago have been detected for the first time.