Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Climate change leading to shrinking animals?
[ Tue, 4 Oct 2011 15:48:13 GMT ]

Data from many copepods, similar to this one, has given scientist insight into how warming temperatures could cause individual animals to become smaller. Copepods are tiny, water-dwelling crustaceans, and an important part of ocean food webs. This is a large, Arctic-dwelling copepod. Melting ice, outbreaks of disease, more intense storms and more forest fires are just some of the effects scientists say will accompany human-caused climate change. Scientists are now exploring another, perhaps more surprising, potential effect: Shrinking animals.


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