Against the Tide: A Fish Adapts Quickly to Lethal Levels of Pollution

Katherine E Kerlin — December 08, 2016 - 9:46am

Evolution is working hard to rescue some urban fish from a lethal, human-altered environment, according to a study led by the University of California, Davis, and published Dec. 9 in the journal Science. Atlantic killifish living in four polluted East Coast estuaries have adapted to levels of highly toxic industrial pollutants that would normally kill them.

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Against the Tide: A Fish Adapts Quickly to Lethal Levels of Pollution