What drives crocodile evolution? Is climate a major factor or changes in sea levels? Determined to find answers to these questions, researchers from McGill University discovered that while changing temperatures and rainfall had little impact on the crocodiles’ gene flow over the past three million years, changes to sea levels during the Ice Age had a different effect.

Classified as: crocodiles, DNA, evolution, climate change, sea levels, rainfall
Published on: 25 Jan 2023
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