# evol: the rare art of surviving: the case of Actinopterygians ray-finned fishes

<< Actinopterygians (ray-finned fishes) successfully passed through four of the big five mass extinction events of the Phanerozoic >>

<< Many researchers have assumed that the Permo-Triassic mass extinction (..) and end-Triassic extinction (..) had little impact on actinopterygians, despite devastating many other groups. >>

Fiann M. Smithwick, Thomas L. Stubbs. Phanerozoic survivors: Actinopterygian evolution through the Permo-Triassic and Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction events.  Evolution. 2018; 72 (2): 348 - 62. doi: 10.1111/evo.13421. Feb 2, 2018

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/evo.13421/abstract

University of Bristol. The resilience of ray-finned fishes. Feb 5, 2018.

https://m.phys.org/news/2018-02-resilience-ray-finned-fishes.html