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A new Yale study provides insights into how tunas evolved their size, speed, and ability to regulate body temperature, challenging the theory that the asteroid strike 66 million years ago spurred their rapid evolution.

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A new Yale study provides insights into how tunas evolved their size, speed, and ability to regulate body temperature, challenging the theory that the asteroid strike 66 million years ago spurred their rapid evolution.
When
Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:17:40 GMT · 3h 31m ago
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Why
The study challenges the long-held theory that the ecological niche left by large marine predators after the K-Pg extinction event spurred the rapid evolution of tunas.
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The findings offer new insights into the evolutionary history of tunas, which are economically important fish, and challenge a long-standing hypothesis about their development.

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