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A 70-million-year-old genetic rescue allowed codfishes to escape extinction and shape the North Atlantic
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. No named outlet is attached yet. The first report grouped here was at 5 Nov 2026, 16:23 UTC. The headline in use is “A 70-million-year-old genetic rescue allowed codfishes to escape extinction and shape the North Atlantic”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
A new study has revealed how the repurposing of an ancestral gene saved the embryos of cod's ancestors from extinction, enabling them to form the large populations that, millions of years later, would change the course of human history. The codfishes and their relatives in the order Gadiformes lost genes…