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A pair of paleobiologists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego have determined that the world's most numerous and diverse vertebrates ¬ - ray - finned fishes — began their ecological dominance of the oceans 66 million years ago, aided by the mass extinction event that killed off dinosaurs.

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For the study, paleobiologist Bo Wang and his colleagues spent three years examining more than 500 fossilized specimens from now - extinct lepidopterans.

So suggests new research from UC Santa Barbara paleobiologist Susannah Porter.

One of the authors of the study, Kenshu Shimada, a paleobiologist at DePaul University, said Rhinconichthys are exceptionally rare, known previously by only one species from England.

But this summer, Rybczynski, a paleobiologist, is confined to her home base, the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, as she recovers from a cross-country skiing accident that left her with a concussion.

For instance, the renowned paleobiologist Svante Pääbo, then at the University of California at Berkeley, claimed to have recovered nuclear DNA from an Egyptian mummy.

And their giant size may have even promoted greater productivity, «by bringing up nutrients from deep waters as they dive and resurface,» suggests Geerat Vermeij, a paleobiologist at the University of California, Davis, who was not involved in the work.

This paper will likely be very influential, adds Lawren Sack, a plant physiologist and ecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles, as paleobiologists can now better estimate photosynthesis for fossils from deep time.

Paleobiologist Amanda Henry of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, would also like to see the researchers use DNA, parasite types unique to humans, or some other means to conclusively prove that the poop came from Neandertals.

«The pattern of co-occurring species remained stable through the evolution of land organisms from the earliest tetrapods through dinosaurs, flowering plants and mammals,» said Anna K. Behrensmeyer, a paleobiologist with the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History and a co-author of the study.