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  • Just do the math: We know that some cold-adapted bacteria can synthesize about one hundred base pairs of DNA per day.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • Just do the math: We know that some cold-adapted bacteria can synthesize about one hundred base pairs of DNA per day.

    First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

  • There's just no way around it: I am a cold-adapted life form.

    they keep building all these big buildings and they build them all in one-- --spot. pnh 2008

  • Although adaptation to low temperature probably entails a form of compensation involving relative growth acceleration of high-latitude forms at low temperature, the shift in metabolism increases metabolic costs at higher temperatures, leaving cold-adapted forms with an energetic disadvantage in the higher-temperature environments [20] that are likely to result from climate change.

    Approaches to projecting climate change effects on arctic fish populations 2009

  • Sika are ecotone deer that have been around since the Pliocene, and the larger cold-adapted forms of the species appear especially close to the ancestry of the apparently more advanced red deer.

    Oh deer oh deer oh deer Darren Naish 2006

  • Sika are ecotone deer that have been around since the Pliocene, and the larger cold-adapted forms of the species appear especially close to the ancestry of the apparently more advanced red deer.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • In a similar manner, after the retreat of the glaciers, cold-adapted communities, such as cranberry bogs, remained in refugia in cooler portions of the Appalachians, well south of their usual range.

    Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests 2008

  • Big cold-adapted Pleistocene mammoths and rhinos are regarded by Geist as grotesque giants, as are big bears and, most interestingly, neanderthals and modern humans.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • You can read more about this in the paper (along with notes on the lizard's cold-adapted physiology, which is unusual in a tropical species), which can be downloaded here.

    Archive 2006-11-01 2006

  • Big cold-adapted Pleistocene mammoths and rhinos are regarded by Geist as grotesque giants, as are big bears and, most interestingly, neanderthals and modern humans.

    Oh deer oh deer oh deer Darren Naish 2006

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