• Question: if you think about how crocodiles survived the meteor hitting earth and wiping out the dinosaurs then do you think it was possible for other marine creatures to survive?

    Asked by Abbie to Barbara, Matt, Ravinder, Sophie, Tristan on 17 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Barbara Shih

      Barbara Shih answered on 17 Mar 2015:

      I’m afraid I’m not familiar with the events that lead to the extinction of dinosaurs, but from what I can gather, approximately 80-90% of fish families (sharks, rays, skates, and “bony fish”) survived it!

      *information from the fish section in the link below http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_extinction_event

    • Photo: Matthew Moore

      Matthew Moore answered on 17 Mar 2015:

      Yeah certainly, sharks are around from that time, they’re really really old! When you look at sharks or crocodiles, you’re looking at least 65 million years into the past when reptiles ran the planet!

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