Science And Technology

What happens when you mix evolution with climate change?By Jen Phillips
Already this year researchers have announced the discovery of a bunch of new species: 6 types of bats, 15 soft corals, thousands of mollusks and 20 sharks and rays, to name a few. If a report issued in 2006 by the Census of Marine Life?conducted by more than 2,000 scientists in 80 countries?is any indicator, we will see a bumper crop of new animals in the years ahead, too. These discoveries, from the Hortle's whipray to the Bali catshark, are partly the fruits of new technology like DNA bar coding, which allows scientists to use genetic differences to tell one species from another. But that isn't the only reason: Evolution actually speeds up in the tropics, research has found, and global warming is making it happen that much faster.
Bad mouth - say unkind, unflattering, embarrassing(and probably untrue)things about someone
Be all ears - be eager to hear what someone has to says
Beat one’s brain out - try very hard to understand or do something.
By the skin of one’s teeth - barely succeed in doing something
Get on one’s nerves - irritate someone; make someone upset
Under the weather - not feeling well
Look the picture of health - be in good health
Draw blood - make someone bleed, get blood from someone
Dose/taste of one’s own medicine - being treated in the same way as one treats others (usually a negative meaning)Take someone’s temperature - measure someone’s body temperature

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