...but, but, but climate change may affect the sex of new eggs, spelling extinction.
As if-—having survived millions of years—a minimal spike one way or the other hasn’t happened to the ta-tas almost as many times.
Stop it. Get out.
Seriously, caught my cynical eye too.
Just HOW hot was it supposed to be 200 million years ago? Or 250? How many global cooling/glaciation/warming cycles since then.
I am SO tired of this bullshit about global warming killing everything and man is the only solution if he’ll give up enoug h of his hard-earned wages or just stop having children.
That was my thought at first, but, the difference is, Tuataras were, in the past, much more widely distributed. Any species that becomes confined to a very small range or habitat has a dicey future.
There are, however, ongoing efforts to re-establish Tuataras in some of their old haunts, and if they represent little threat as invasive species, certainly efforts could be made to establish them in suitable habitats as climate changes. Mo’ Nature will make changes with or without or perhaps in spite of any help from us.