Evolving to outpace climate change, tiny marine animal provides new evidence of long-theorized genet

Some copepods, diminutive crustaceans with an outsized place in the aquatic food web, can evolve fast enough to survive in the face of rapid climate change, according to new research that addresses a longstanding question in the field of genetics. Several species of copepods and one ostracod are shown here [Credit: NOAA] Barely more than a millimeter long, the copepod Eurytemora affinis paddles its way through the coastal waters of oceans and estuaries around the world in large...