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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.

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