Diet is crucial to understanding ecology, and by extension, evolution. An ecological position of an animal tells you exactly where it was in its ecosystem and what the disappearance or evolution of its food meant for its own evolution. It is very difficult to understand the ecology of a given organism when all you have of them are fossils, but sometimes you get a peek into what the hell they were doin with themselves if you understand how chemistry works. Such an understanding of chemistry was just recently used to extrapolate on what is known of the ecology of the largest shark to ever live – Megalodon – and it shows that Megalodon and the Great White shark are more similar than previously thought and in a way no one had imagined.
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RESEARCH
McCormack, J., Griffiths, M.L., Kim, S.L. et al. Trophic position of Otodus megalodon and great white sharks through time revealed by zinc isotopes. Nat Commun 13, 2980 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30528-9
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