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A bag of Cheetos created a huge impact on a national park ecosystem (apnews.com)
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"The bag could have been there a day or two or maybe just hours, but those salty morsels of processed corn made soft by thick humidity triggered the growth of mold on the cavern floor and on nearby cave formations.

“To the ecosystem of the cave it had a huge impact,” the park noted in a social media post, explaining that cave crickets, mites, spiders and flies soon organized to eat and disperse the foreign mess, essentially spreading the contamination."

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[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Evolution takes millions of years.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Evolution happens whenever there is a pressure. It doesn't have to take millions of years.