Climate change won’t simply shrink marine life

Climate change won’t simply shrink marine life pellijoh@helsinki.fi Thu, 03/09/2026 - 15:24 Global study of more than 23,000 marine mollusk species projects major shifts in body size by 2100 — including surprising growth in some animals and ocean regions. Research led by scientists at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette challenges a long-held assumption about the effects of climate change on marine life: warmer oceans won’t simply make animals smaller. The study was led by , who conducted the research as a postdoctoral researcher in the UL Lafayette laboratory of senior author Dr.