Shifting weather patterns and rising temperatures are rapidly outpacing biological adaptations in certain organisms. (scientificamerican.com)
While at Georgia, he also met Milton Cormier, a biochemistry professor who was studying bioluminescence, the ability of certain organisms to produce and emit light. (discovermagazine.com)
The first is changes to the environment that significantly alter habitat, in effect» «altering the rules of the game,»» as Arens puts it, so that physical characteristics and behavior that once proved adaptive for certain organisms — dinosaurs, for instance, that relied on flowering plants for food — no longer work as well. (discovermagazine.com)