{"id":180812,"date":"2024-01-18T20:25:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T02:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/new-evolution-theory-explains-why-animals-shrink-over-time"},"modified":"2024-01-18T20:25:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T02:25:42","slug":"new-evolution-theory-explains-why-animals-shrink-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/new-evolution-theory-explains-why-animals-shrink-over-time","title":{"rendered":"New Evolution Theory Explains Why Animals Shrink Over Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-evolution-theory-explains-why-animals-shrink-over-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>New research reveals key factors behind the changing sizes of certain animals over time, challenging traditional evolutionary theories with its findings on species \u2019 size variations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mystery behind why Alaskan horses, cryptodiran turtles, and island lizards shrunk over time may have been solved in a new study.<\/p>\n<p>The new theoretical research proposes that animal size over time depends on two key ecological factors: the intensity of direct competition for resources between species, and the risk of extinction from the environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research reveals key factors behind the changing sizes of certain animals over time, challenging traditional evolutionary theories with its findings on species \u2019 size variations. The mystery behind why Alaskan horses, cryptodiran turtles, and island lizards shrunk over time may have been solved in a new study. The new theoretical research proposes that animal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}