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September 8, 2021 12:43 pm GMT

Animals are "shapeshifting" to cope with climate change

Image of bird-beak thermoregulation

A new scientific paper finds that warm-blooded animals are evolving larger beaks, legs, ears and tails, as they try to adapt to a warmer planet.

"Appendages have an important, but often undervalued, role in animal thermoregulation", as the authors write — in birds, for example, beaks are used to expel heat. — Read the rest


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