The Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (MUVP) led an international study published in Science Advances, revealing that modern marine fish communities were already established just 4 million years after the extinction of the dinosaurs.

The research is based on a newly discovered 62.2-million-year-old fossil

site in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, providing exceptional evidence of the rapid rise and diversification of modern marine fishes following one of Earth's greatest mass extinctions

Paper’s URL: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aec8978