Global warming ‘could make us shorter’ after horses are found to have shrunk the LAST time the world
Global warming could make us shorter, scientists say.
Palaeontologists studying fossilised horses have found a direct link between the size of mammals and the planet's temperature - with warmer times meaning smaller beasts.
Researchers from the universities of Florida and Nebraska used fossils to follow the evolution of horses from their earliest appearance 56 million years ago.
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As temperatures went up their size went down, and vice versa, said Dr Jonathan Bloch, curator of the Florida Museum of Natural History.
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If horses were as small as dogs then maybe all we've got to look forward to is :
Hi Ho , Hi Ho, its off to work we go.......................
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