The mouse changes color to adapt to the environment

According to the 28th news from the British media, scientists have discovered that a mouse can also change color to protect them from extinction before predators.

Scientists have discovered this type of deer mouse growing in Nebraska's sand dunes, after discovering the changing environment, it took 8000 years to change the color from light black to yellow. The environment in which they lived 10,000 years ago, after the glaciers melted, only the sandy hills left led to this change.

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Because light-colored mice live on sandy hills that are hard to detect by predators, this can escape the hunting of predators and grow, and the The dark haired color is the exact opposite. So this deer mouse changed color from black to yellow.

Katerine - Professor at Harvard University pointed out, they recently found signs of significant genetic changes that caused mouse hair color changes. This is also the change created after the appearance of sand dunes.

The results of the scientists' analysis showed that it took about 8,000 years to change the color of deer mice.