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Word: amargosa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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That color changes with environment is strikingly illustrated by the varieties of U.S. horned toads. A brightly splotched variety lives in Arizona's Painted Desert, a drab single-toned variety on the drab soil of Oregon, a white variety on the white alkali soil of the Amargosa Desert, a black variety on the West's black lava belts. Such adaptations sometimes occur before the very eyes of biologists: during the industrialization of Germany a black moth replaced a former pale variety in factory areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Natural Camouflage | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

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