Sanaa El-Sayed, recent PhD graduate, and a group of researchers from Egypt and Michigan investigated a new rare fossil site that contains specimens from just after the extinction that killed non-avian dinosaurs. The Qreiya 3 site, located in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, yielded over 500 diverse examples of well-preserved fish skeletons from around 62.2 million years ago. These specimens lacked major fish groups common in the Cretaceous, but did include diverse representatives of a group called percomorphs. This gave evidence that diverse fish types developed rapidly after the extinction. Learn more from the Michigan News article or the research paper.
