Telegraph: It sounds far-fetched, but scientists increasingly believe that animals including people will get smaller if global warming runs out of control.
Researchers studying fossils laid down in what is now Wyoming the last time temperatures rose rapidly, some 55 million years ago found that animals from horses to insects adapted by downsizing. The clumsily entitled Bighorn Basin Coring Project funded by the US National Science Foundation and involving scientists from Britain, Germany and the...