/ Killifish Content for UC 海角原创 en /climate/news/an-evolutionary-rescue-in-polluted-waters <p>The combination of a big population, good genes and luck helps explain how a species of fish in Texas鈥� Houston Ship Channel was able to adapt to what normally would be lethal levels of toxins for most other species, according to <a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/364/6439/455">a study</a> to be published May 3 in the journal <em>Science</em>.&nbsp;</p> May 02, 2019 - 2:16pm Katherine E Kerlin /climate/news/an-evolutionary-rescue-in-polluted-waters /news/against-tide-fish-adapting-quickly-lethal-levels-pollution <p>Evolution is working hard to rescue some urban fish from a lethal, human-altered environment, according to a study led by the University of California, 海角原创, and published Dec. 9 in the journal <em>Science</em>.&nbsp;Atlantic killifish living in four polluted East Coast estuaries have adapted to levels of highly toxic industrial pollutants that would normally kill them.</p> December 08, 2016 - 9:46am Katherine E Kerlin /news/against-tide-fish-adapting-quickly-lethal-levels-pollution