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    Climate Change Is Making Some Species Of Animals Shape-Shift

    Just like humans, researchers say animals also have to adapt to climate change. The shifts for some warm-blooded animals are occurring over a far shorter time period than would usually happen.
    by Jonathan Franklin Sep 09, 2021 1 minute
    A starling sits in the cherry tree blooms along the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC. Researchers say some starlings has seen an increase in bill size.

    Humans are not the only ones adapting to the effects of global climate change.

    Animals are also adapting to the environmental changes — as some warm-blooded animals are beginning to "shapeshift" their bodies in response to shifts in climate, led by Sara Ryding, a researcher at Deakin University in Australia.

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