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Study: Global warming, evolution are clipping bees' tongues

2015-09-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: Global warming and evolution are reshaping the bodies of some American bumblebees, a new study finds. The tongues of two Rocky Mountains species of bumblebees are about one-quarter shorter than they were 40 years ago, evolving that way because climate change altered the buffet of wildflowers they normally feed from, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science. In one of these species, the tongue had been half the size of the bee's body the equivalent of a human tongue going...

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