Global warming could make humans shorter, warn scientists who claim to have found evidence that it caused theworld's first horses to shrunk nearl.
global warming could make humans shorter, warn scientists who claim to have found evidence that it caused the nuskin
world's first horses to shrunk nearly 50 million years ago。
in fact, a team from the universities of florida and nebraska says it has found a link between the earth
heating up and the size of mammals -- horses, in this case, the last time the world heated up。
the scientists used fossils to follow the evolution of horses from their earliest appearance 56 million years
ago。
as temperatures went up their size went down, and vice versa; at one point they were as small as a house cat,
said dr jonathan bloch, curator of the florida museum of natural history, was quoted by the "daily mail" as saying