Climate Change Makes Marine Animals Shrink

Whether mussels, crustaceans or fish: Marine animals have been responding to environmental crises with a reduction in their body size for hundreds of millions of years. A new study by Friedrich‑Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in conjunction with the Universities of Warsaw and Lille now shows that this phenomenon, known as the "Lilliput effect", is especially pronounced during phases…

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