From the Queen Mary, University of London , there was shrinkage, of plankton no less. I’m sure it’s easy to extrapolate that right up to the top of the food chain. Planktonic copepod Image: Wikipedia How global warming could cause animals to shrinkThe way in which global warming causes many of the world’s organisms to shrink has been revealed by new research from Queen Mary, University of London.Almost all cold-blooded organisms are affected by a phenomenon known as the ‘temperature-size rule’, which describes how individuals of the same species reach a smaller adult size when reared at warmer temperatures. But...