“Climate change is already forcing lizards, insects and other species to evolve – and most can't keep up”, an article written by Dr. Michael Moore and Dr. James T. Stroud, (Georgia Institute of Technology), was published in the current edition of Yahoo News – “The Conversation addresses. The article addresses how species are not evolving fast enough to keep pace with climate change.
“Climate change is threatening the survival of plants and animals around the globe as temperatures rise and habitats change.
Some species have been able to meet the challenge with rapid evolutionary adaptation and other changes in behavior or physiology. Dark-colored dragonflies are getting paler in order to reduce the amount of heat they absorb from the sun. Mustard plants are flowering earlier to take advantage of earlier snowmelt. Lizards are becoming more cold-tolerant to handle the extreme variability of our new climate.
However, scientific studies show that climate change is occurring much faster than species are changing."
You can read the full article here.