Toxic waters turn sea snakes black

• Autores: Aylin Woodward
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3139, 2017, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Pollution from mining activities may be encouraging some sea snakes to evolve black skins--the first evidence of "industrial melanism" in a marine species. Industrial melanism has been seen in invertebrate species, most famously the peppered moth. During Britain's Industrial Revolution, the frequency of dark-colored versions of this moth skyrocketed. Schoolchildren are often taught that such insects blended in with the soot-covered bark of trees in industrial areas, so their odds of surviving and breeding rose--although this might be an oversimplification.