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When it comes to the threat of extinction, size matters
2017-09-18 06:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] CORVALLIS, Ore. — Animals in the Goldilocks zone — neither too big, nor too small, but just the right size — face a lower risk of extinction than do those on both ends of the scale, according to an extensive global analysis. Reporting today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers who determined body masses for thousands of vertebrate animal species showed that the largest and smallest species face a greater risk of extinction than do m…
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