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The plucky puffin, endangered yet coping: Scientists link emergence of a hybrid subspecies to climate change

Studying puffin populations on three Norwegian islands, scientists have uncovered the first evidence to connect a large-scale hybridization to 20th-century warming trends. Yet a serious decline in the birds’’ genetic diversity does not bode well for their future.

Interspecies mating resilience & adaptation

Why these frogs make ‘the grossest blunder in sexual preference’

Interspecies mating has long been thought of as a mistake. But in the desert, it may sometimes be the best way to breed.
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