Study: Animal species are changing due to global warming

According to a new study, some species have already changed their appearance. Scientists have found evidence of changes in the size of body parts of animals and birds in response to global warming in all regions of the planet – from the Arctic to the tropical regions of Australia. Changes are insignificant, but indicative – the beaks of two Australian parrots – a bandit cockatoo and a red parrot – have increased in size by up to 10%. Tiny Alaskan

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Study: Animal species are changing due to global warming

According to a new study, some species have already changed their appearance. Scientists have found evidence of changes in the size of body parts of animals and birds in response to global warming in all regions of the planet – from the Arctic to the tropical regions of Australia. Changes are insignificant, but indicative – the beaks of two Australian parrots – a bandit cockatoo and a red parrot – have increased in size by up to 10%. Tiny Alaskan

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Rents could rise by 30% within three years, warns the CCMM

Olivier Zuida Le Devoir The increase in the average rent will be 10% in 2023, and could reach 30 % within three years. The Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal (CCMM) estimates that there is a shortage of 60,000 housing units in the greater Montreal area and that housing prices are rising much faster than household incomes. If we must “build more and faster, we must also make sure to build well”, however, specifies the organization, which advocates “intelligent densification”.

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Scientists have unearthed a cemetery of ancient relatives of elephants at the age of almost 6 million years

An ancient “elephant cemetery” filled with massive bones has been excavated along what was once a prehistoric river in northern Florida. The fossils of these long-extinct animals belong to Gomphotherium, relatives of modern elephants, and date back to about 5.5 million years ago, the Miocene epoch. This was reported by t4.com.ua “It was very exciting, because that it gave us the opportunity to not only see what an adult [gomphothere] would have looked like, but to very carefully document every

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Scientists have revealed the secret of thinking centenarians

Experts often remind that in order to reduce the risk of premature death, it is necessary to lead a healthy lifestyle, limit the use of alcohol and tobacco. However, American scientists conducted a large-scale study of the causes of longevity and revealed an unusual relationship. < /p> According to experts, men and women with a high level of optimism have an average life expectancy of 11-15% longer than that of pessimists. Those who had a positive mindset had the greatest

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NASA lacks data to detect UFOs

The US government agency NASA for the first time spoke about new studies of unidentified anomalous objects or phenomena. It's about a UFO. Reported by BBC. UFO Research A special group for the study of unknown aerial phenomena, formerly called UFOs, was created last June. She held her first public meeting and stated that she had studied more than 800 reports of unidentified flying objects. The report says that a small part defies scientific explanation.

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Traces of the Guard Strait of the Legion found in Georgia

Polish archaeologists, conducting excavations in the Roman fort Apsar, have opened an unknown page in the battle path of the famous legion. It turned out that his soldiers literally littered with coins of Jewish origin in the distant barbarian outskirts. The first mention of the Roman military fortification Apsaros (Apsaros) is found by Pliny the Younger (1st century AD). The remains of this fortress are located on the territory of modern Georgia, five kilometers north of the border with Turkey.

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The squirrel, this turbulent neighbor

Photo: Marie-France Coallier Le Devoir Unlike its red cousin, the gray squirrel, very opportunistic, adapts well to the presence of its congeners and that of humans. They are everywhere in town. Admired for their acrobatic talents, they are also hated for the devastation they cause in plantations, in particular. Perfectly adapted to the urban environment, gray squirrels have proliferated to such an extent that one wonders if they are not too numerous in town. Portrait of a small mammal that

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A quasi-satellite was found near the Earth: it has been traveling with our planet for more than 2 years

Astronomers recently identified asteroid 2023 FW13 as a quasi-satellite, a space rock orbiting the Sun in near tandem with the Earth. The space rock was named 2023 FW13 and it is considered a “quasi-satellite” of the Earth. It revolves around the Sun in the same time frame as the Earth, but is only slightly affected by the gravitational pull of our planet. The 2023 FW13 is estimated to be 15 m in diameter. The quasi-satellite revolves around the Earth, being

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