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TIL the blacknose dace, now one of the most widespread fish in the eastern US, suffered a severe range contraction during the Ice Age and was restricted to a single area: what is now modern-day Connecticut. After the Ice Age ended, the dace recolonized the whole East Coast in as little as 75 years.

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