Revealing the hidden patterns of shark and ray diversity over the past 145 million years.

Neoselachians (a monophyletic group including modern sharks, rays, and skates and their extinct relatives)1,2 have an extensive fossil record and a long evolutionary history,1,2,3 with over 1,100 extant species today.4 Previous reconstructions of the…

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