{"id":729288,"date":"2026-08-06T11:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729288\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:26:08","slug":"extreme-evolution-the-animals-evolving-at-super-speed-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/729288\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme evolution: The animals evolving at super speed to survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">Animals aren&#8217;t just adapting in urban environments, though. They&#8217;re physiologically changing to survive living with humans. For example, in some places, there has been a rise in the number of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.abe7389\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">elephants born without tusks<\/a>. That&#8217;s because poachers are more likely to kill those with tusks \u2013 while tuskless ones survive and pass on their genes, including the &#8220;tusklessness&#8221; trait. In other words, being tuskless has become an evolutionary advantage in places where poachers are a major threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Animals aren&#8217;t just adapting in urban environments, though. They&#8217;re physiologically changing to survive living with humans. For example,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-729288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}