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Global extinction events and persistent age-dependency in sharks and rays over the past 145 million years

Kristína Kocáková Orcid Logo, Daniele Silvestro Orcid Logo, Gregor Hans Mathes Orcid Logo, Jaime Andres Villafaña Orcid Logo, Catalina Pimiento Orcid Logo

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Volume: 292, Issue: 2061, Start page: 20252272

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DOI (Published version): 10.1098/rspb.2025.2272

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Understanding extinction mechanisms, including what traits make some species more vulnerable than others, is key in a changing world. It has been proposed that species’ age predicts extinction risk. However, our understanding of age-dependent extinction (ADE) remains unresolved, with positive and ne...

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title Global extinction events and persistent age-dependency in sharks and rays over the past 145 million years
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title_fullStr Global extinction events and persistent age-dependency in sharks and rays over the past 145 million years
title_full_unstemmed Global extinction events and persistent age-dependency in sharks and rays over the past 145 million years
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description Understanding extinction mechanisms, including what traits make some species more vulnerable than others, is key in a changing world. It has been proposed that species’ age predicts extinction risk. However, our understanding of age-dependent extinction (ADE) remains unresolved, with positive and negative trends being modelled only as mutually exclusive, and rarely across clade-specific diversification trajectories. Here, we reconstruct the global diversification trajectory of neoselachians (modern sharks and rays) over the past 145 Myr to assess ADE using a new model that allows positive and negative trends to co-occur. We recovered a dynamic diversification trajectory, including four previously undetected extinction events, the most significant in the Eocene–Oligocene. Negative ADE was consistently found over time, with young species, especially those younger than 4 Myr, being more vulnerable. Our results suggest that neoselachians have been more susceptible to extinction than previously recognized, with age being a consistent intrinsic predictor of their vulnerability through deep time.
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