Survival Of The Sluggish: Scientists Find An Upside To A Low Metabolism
A study of 5 million years of mollusks suggests that laziness could be a good survival strategy: species that have gone extinct had higher metabolic rates than the ones that exist today.
by Laurel Wamsley
Aug 24, 2018
1 minute
New research suggests one effective evolutionary strategy: be lazy.
Species of mollusks that are now extinct had higher metabolic rates than the species that exist today, scientists announced in a paper published this week in .
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