News Source: Androscoggin News
| 4 months ago
Like the wool sweater that emerges from the dryer a size too small, global warming seems to be shrinking sheep. On average, wild Soay sheep on Scotland's island Hirta are 5 percent smaller today than they were in 1985, according to a team of...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 4 months ago
Evolution and climate change Survival of the less fit Jul 3rd 2009 From The Economist print edition The mystery of Scotland’s shrinking sheep may have been solved ON THE remote island of Hirta, in the St Kilda archipelago beyond the Outer Hebrides,...