A new study by biologists at Mercyhurst University focuses on the influence of climate change, particularly warmer winters, on the survival and potential fecundity of cold-blooded animals. Cold ...

Scientists have analyzed 40 years of data to outline climate change challenge for ectotherms (animals who rely on external sources of heat to control body temperature). The research showed that many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Ectotherms” may seem an aspirationally opaque title for a film of such modest means, though it makes an increasing degree of ...

University of Granada scientists confirm that ectotherms–like reptiles and amphibians–do follow "Bergmann's rule". The 19th-century naturalist posited thatanimals inhabiting colder climates have a ...

Ectotherms, animals whose body temperature closely tracks ambient temperature, occur in virtually every ecological niche on Earth. By virtue of some remarkable adaptations, they thrive even at high ...

Fig. 2: Thermal sensitivity of biological processes sustaining life in the permissive temperature range or causing heat death in the stressful temperature range. To estimate the thermal sensitivity of ...

Global warming can have alarming consequences for ectotherms (aka cold-blooded animals) across the globe, both on land and in water. A new study shows that the rate at which heat injury in ectotherms ...

Scientists confirm that ectotherms -- like reptiles and amphibians -- do follow "Bergmann's rule". The 19th-century naturalist posited that animals inhabiting colder climates have a larger body size.

The Florida sun has rarely seemed harsher than it does in “Ectotherms,” a bristling, defiantly lo-fi debut feature from multitasking filmmaker Monica Pena that offers a pithily poetic view of ...