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Shrews exhibit reversible size changes in their skulls and noses to get through the winter

Shrews exhibit reversible size changes in their skulls and noses to get through the winterWorldPing

Scientists had previously observed that some species of shrews undergo a form of biological plasticity in which their bodies, skulls, brains and some organs shrink in the winter, then regrow in the spring.

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