Researchers have warned the impact early springs could have on agriculture and ecological systems.
Scientists are having fun with twitter by asking people to send in cute shots of animals.
It has been found that about 90 percent of seabirds have consumed plastic that has wound up in the oceans.
The study portended a grim future for sea birds which could die of starvation due to plastic lodged in stomach.
The beaks of chicken embryos reverted to their ancestral state after scientists tweaked facial gene expression.
