Tracing the evolutionary origins of fish to shallow ocean waters

Coral reefs are envisioned as the seats of great biodiversity, but they may not be where all that diversity got its start. In a new study in Science, paleobiologist Lauren Sallan and colleagues reveal that the earliest fish may have diversified in shallower waters near shore.

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Tracing the evolutionary origins of fish to shallow ocean waters

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