HORSES IN SCIENCE: As scientists continue developing climate change projection models, paleontologists studying an extreme short-term global warming event have discovered direct evidence about how mammals respond to rising temperatures. Researchers have now found a correlation between temperature and body size in mammals by following the evolution of the earliest horses about 56 million years ago: As temperatures increased, their body size decreased. Click sciencedaily/releases/2012/02/120223142634.htm for more info
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 06:00:01 +0000
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