How corals tell us climate change is supersizing El Niño
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How corals tell us climate change is supersizing El Niño

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The El Niño underway in the Pacific Ocean is a natural climate phenomenon but its warming effects are being boosted by climate change. Researchers recently used corals growing around the Galapagos Islands to create a local temperature record of the ocean going back 1,000 years. Also today: Massive study redraws bat family tree and uncovers genetic odditiesHow the Surinam toad uses star-shaped fingertip lobes to ‘see’ its preyT. rex tooth enamel reveals these dinosaurs were warm-bloodedWhy great white sharks are converging on the East Coast

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We don't see anything like that in the pre-industrial era in our Coral days.

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fingers and an unusual way of hunting. You would see them in kind of a funny posture,

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Hi, I'm Bob McDonald. Welcome to Quirks and Quarks. On this week's show, Coral Reefs in the Galapagos Islands reveal how climate change is super sizing El Nino.

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What we found is that the strong El Ninos of the last 40 to 50 years are really unusual. We don't see anything like that in the pre-industrial era in our Coral days. in our coral data. And a flat, tongueless and nearly blind toad with super sensitive fingers and an unusual way of hunting. You would see them in kind of a funny posture,

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almost like the goal posts of an American football stadium. Plus, rewriting bat origins, a warm blooded T-Rex and great white sharks gathering on the east coast. All this today on Quirks and Quarks. When it comes to mammals, bats are a bit of an oddball.

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