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Handstanding Skunks’ DNA Shaped by Ancient Climate Change
Live Science Western spotted skunks — striped skunks’ smaller cousins that stand on their “hands” to blast their smelly defensive spray — are helping scientists piece together a picture of how ancient climate change shaped animal populations millions of years ago … Ancient climate change drove the evolution of this adorable hand-standing skunk Ice Age climate change played a bigger role in skunk genetics than geological barriers Study: Climate change affected spotted skunk evolution |