This multi-decade study on an isolated and unfished population of manta rays (Manta alfredi
and M. birostris) in the Maldives used individual-based photo-ID records and behavioural …

Through elasmobranch (sharks and rays) evolutionary history, gigantism evolved multiple
times in phylogenetically distant species, some of which are now extinct. Interestingly, the …

Abstract The Australian Mesozoic fish fauna is considered to be depauperate in comparison
with fish faunas in the Northern Hemisphere. However, due to its geographical location as a …

ABSTRACT Extinct lamniform sharks (Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes) are well represented in
the late Mesozoic‒Cenozoic fossil record, yet their biology is poorly understood because …

The fossil fish Ptychodus Agassiz, 1834, characterized by a highly distinctive grinding
dentition and an estimated gigantic body size (up to around 10 m), has remained one of the …

Lamniformes (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) is a group of sharks that consists of 15
extant species with a wide range of morphological diversity. The most rarely captured …

The ecomorphological diversity of extinct elasmobranchs is incompletely known. Here, we
describe Aquilolamna milarcae, a bizarre probable planktivorous shark from early Late …

Abstract The Mesozoic Marine Revolution restructured the world's ocean biodiversity into the
complex marine ecosystems of today. This revolution began during the Triassic but the …

A diverse fish paleofauna occurs in the upper Campanian portion of the Rybushka
Formation exposed near Saratov city in the Saratov Oblast, Russia. Twenty taxa have been …

The first shark from the early Late Cretaceous Konservat Lagerstätte of Agoult (south-
eastern Morocco) is described. The specimen consists of the anterior part of an articulated …