Texas State Researchers Discover Astonishingly Low Mutation Rate in Sharks
December 13, 2023
December 13, 2023
SAN MARCOS, Texas, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- Texas State University issued the following news release:
For more than 400 million years, sharks have swum Earth's oceans. Before the first dinosaurs appeared, sharks filled every ocean. Surprisingly, sharks have changed very little during that span and look very much like their ancestors, even as other animals have undergone dramatic evolutionary change.
Now, researchers from Texas State University (TXST) have led an internationa . . .
For more than 400 million years, sharks have swum Earth's oceans. Before the first dinosaurs appeared, sharks filled every ocean. Surprisingly, sharks have changed very little during that span and look very much like their ancestors, even as other animals have undergone dramatic evolutionary change.
Now, researchers from Texas State University (TXST) have led an internationa . . .