Researchers found that urbanization is making animals bigger over time, contrary to expectations, after observing that mammals living in cities are longer and heavier than their rural counterparts. The findings challenge earlier hypotheses that harsh urban environments would producer smaller critters over time. Researchers at the Florida Museum of Natural History looked at 140,500 measurements from some 100 North American […]
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