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animals are shape shifting in response to a warming climate and the strange

afterlife of Albert Einstein's brain. Let's satisfy some curiosity.

It's becoming easier and easier to see the effects of climate change, but it's more than melting

glaciers, rising seas, and terrible storms.

According to new research, our warming world may be making animals shap shift right before our eyes.

Seriously, many different animals are growing bigger beaks, ears, tails, and wings to keep from overheating.

See, when we humans get too hot, we sweat and maybe turn on the air conditioner.

But other warm-blooded animals use a different technique.

They send hot blood to oversized appendages where that extra heat can dissipate into the

slightly cooler air.

It's why elephants and jackrabbits have such big old ears.

It's a clever solution to a life or death problem, but as the climate warms, it's getting harder to pull off.

The researchers behind this new study wondered if animals were growing their

appendages to handle the increasing heat.

To find out, they collected data on about 30 different species.

They relied on information that other scientists had collected in the field and in the lab,

along with specimens and museums across the world.

All of that data told a pretty clear story. Animals are changing shape.

Not all in the same way, but the patterns are clear. Parrots are a particularly good example because museums just love collecting them.

Those specimens show that since 1871, the surface area of a parrots beak has grown by up to 10%. Surface area is the most important

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