Getting the jump on evolution: Cane toads adapt at speed

A new study comparing invasive cane toads in Japan and Australia has found substantial changes in body size and shape have developed much more rapidly than suggested by long-held ideas of the pace of evolution. Researchers measured and weighed wild-caught cane toads (Rhinella marina) on subtropical Ishigaki Island in southern Japan and compared them to toads measured in Australia, Hawai'i and Sout
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