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Honey, we shrunk the birds

Unexplainable

Why Are Birds and Other Animals Shrinking?

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Birds have lost about two point six % of their mass over 40 years. A part of their leg which they use to measure the change in size, also shortened by an average of two point four%. We would normally expect to see that over like, a much longer period than forty years. Do scientists have any idea why animals are shrinking? What's going on here? Hassenfelld and this week, and unexplainable.

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