Palaeontology
Prehistoric oceans inhabited by giant fish
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T.K. RandallFebruary 22, 2010 ·
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Between 66 and 172 million years ago enormous plankton-eating fish prowled the depths of the world's oceans.
Fish such as Leedsichthys would have been numerous before the event that wiped out the dinosaurs, it is believed that these creatures may have bridged the evolutionary gap between fish and mammals.
Prehistoric seas were filled with giant plankton-eating fish which died out at the same time as the dinosaurs, new fossil evidence suggests. Scientists from Glasgow, Oxford and the United States have identified fossil evidence which shows the fish existed between 66 and 172 million years ago.
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