Being a big fish in a small pond (or, uh, the ocean) could get you killed.

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By Amelia UrrySep 14, 2016, 2:01 pm73 pts
Turns out the largest sea creatures are most likely to go extinct, according to research published today in Science. The research, led by Stanford’s Jonathan Payne, compared modern marine vertebrates and mollusks to their ancestors in the fossil record, all the way back to the last mass extinction 66…

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