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Global warming led to dwarfism in mammals -- twice
2013-11-02 19:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Mammal body size decreased significantly during at least two ancient global warming events. A new finding that suggests a similar outcome is possible in response to human-caused climate change, according to a University of Michigan paleontologist and his colleagues. Researchers have known for years that mammals such as primates and the groups that include horses and deer became much smaller during a period of warming, called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), about 55 million years ago....
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