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Study: Climate change affected spotted skunk evolution
UPI ^ | May 3, 2017 | By Allen Cone

Posted on 05/04/2017 7:48:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The western spotted skunk, the 2-pound smelly creature, evolved more than a million years ago because of climate, according to new research.

Adam Ferguson, the collections manager of mammals at the Field Museum in Chicago, is the lead author of a new study, published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, that examined how the spotted skunk can live in a variety of climates across the western United States and Mexico.

"By analyzing western spotted skunk DNA, we learned that Ice Age climate change played a crucial role in their evolution," Ferguson said in a press release. "Over the past million years, changing climates isolated groups of spotted skunks in regions with suitable abiotic conditions, giving rise to genetic sub-divisions that we still see today."

The skunks' coats are almost maze-like with black and white swirls. They ward off predators by spraying with a hand-stand, with hind legs and fluffy tail in the air.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climategate; globalism; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; greennewdeal; hoax; socialism

1 posted on 05/04/2017 7:48:23 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Must have been all those gas-guzzling SUV’s the dinosaurs were driving


2 posted on 05/04/2017 7:50:07 AM PDT by Mr. K (***THERE IS NO CONSEQUENCE OF REPEALING OBAMACARE THAT IS WORSE THAN OBAMACARE ITSELF***)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sorry....no way you can prove that.


3 posted on 05/04/2017 7:51:16 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s nothing. Climate changed turned one smelly skunk into a multimillionaire....Al Gore.


4 posted on 05/04/2017 7:51:24 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change affected Mammoths, Mastadons and Sabertooth cats also.


5 posted on 05/04/2017 7:52:56 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Deportation mayhem is just birthing pains for a new America.)
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To: Rebelbase

Climate change made the planet inhabitable by man, thus the reason libtards hate it.


6 posted on 05/04/2017 7:55:41 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (patriots win, Communists and Socialist Just-Us Warriors lose)
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To: Mr. K

That and the pack of Winstons each day that they smoked.


7 posted on 05/04/2017 8:04:32 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just a subset of the realization that everything is caused by global warming: http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm


8 posted on 05/04/2017 8:04:57 AM PDT by Stosh
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To: Mr. K

The Flintstone's SUV was the cause of the end of the Glacial Period and Ice Age.

Everybody knows that it's a proven scientific fact. Can't argue with science. Case closed. End of story. No argument. Don't even try to deny it.

9 posted on 05/04/2017 8:05:49 AM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Arrgh! Climate change messed up the stripes of the skunk! What can it NOT do!


10 posted on 05/04/2017 8:13:11 AM PDT by refreshed (But we preach Christ crucified... 1 Corinthians 1:23)
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To: txrefugee

Best response.


11 posted on 05/04/2017 8:16:39 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

Thanks…now if I could just remember to proof read.


12 posted on 05/04/2017 8:19:17 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I don't know why there are so many people (idiots) on this planet who think that the climate on this 3rd rock from the Sun should be a static, unchanging thing. Climate changes. Period. If it didn't, we'd all be dead by now.

But the eggheads who have been bought and paid for and the MSM have been driving their agenda for so long that children and morons think that Climate Change is an evil thing caused by man. They only started using that phrase when global temperatures started dropping. They had to do something to get rid of 'Global Warming' when it stopped happening.

They make me nuts.

13 posted on 05/04/2017 9:02:34 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can’t be. The Humane Society says Yoplait containers have killed all the skunks.


14 posted on 05/04/2017 10:50:36 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This study stinks.


15 posted on 05/04/2017 1:17:13 PM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: Mr. K

Maybe, just maybe (I’m in California, y’know) it was dinosaur “emissions” (I’d write “farts” but that’s a bit crude).


16 posted on 05/04/2017 1:19:36 PM PDT by glennaro
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To: VaeVictis

you got that right. Stinks on ice...

WTF....making a big deal out of something taught in intro bio.


17 posted on 05/04/2017 2:41:03 PM PDT by bioqubit (bioqubit: Educated Men Make Terrible Slaves - Aristotle)
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To: bioqubit
WTF....making a big deal out of something taught in intro bio.

Always fascinated by evolution, 'thought I'd look up human feet:

"Despite the way our species evolved away from climbing trees to walking on flat ground, some people are still walking around with monkey-like feet. In fact, you may be surprised to learn that about 1 in 13 humans may have a midtarsal break in their foot characteristic of non-human primates. These are also referred to as prehensile feet."

https://doctorvikki.com/2016/10/prehensile-feet-people-with-feet-similar-to-monkeys/

18 posted on 05/04/2017 3:58:32 PM PDT by Does so (USA: Watching Muslims' 2nd US Generation become "Radicalized"...)
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This topic was posted 5/4/2017, thanks Oldeconomybuyer.
Thanks .

19 posted on 09/05/2021 10:16:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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