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From crocodiles to krill, a warming world raises the 'costs' paid by developing embryos

  • Written by Dustin Marshall, Professor, Marine Evolutionary Ecology, Monash University
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Apart from mammals and birds, most animals develop as eggs exposed to the vagaries of the outside world. This development is energetically “costly”. Going from a tiny egg to a fully functioning organism can deplete up to 60% of the energy reserves provided by a parent.

In cold-blooded animals such as marine invertebrates...

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