Study: Late Ordovician Mass Extinction Cleared Way for First Fishes

18:36 - 12 Jan 2026

A long-standing mystery in vertebrate evolution -- why most major fish lineages appear suddenly in the fossil record tens of millions of years after their presumed origins -- is tied to the Late Ordovician mass extinction.

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