•The figure in David Jablonski's News and Views article (“Progress at the K-T boundary”: Nature 387, 354–355; 1997) was misattributed. It was modified, not from reference 17, but from ref. 15 (Marshall, C. R. in The Adequacy of the Fossil Record (eds Donovan, S. K. & Paul, C. R. C.) (Wiley, Chichester, in the press). Thanks are due to Charles Marshall for helping to prepare the modified version of the figure.