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Plants & Animals Apr 9, 2024

Ancient sea turtle housed at Boston aquarium for more than 50 years passes another physical

Apparently, it's pretty easy being green after all. That was the takeaway from Tuesday's physical examination of Myrtle, an ancient green sea turtle that has delighted visitors to the New England Aquarium in Boston for more ...

Plants & Animals Apr 2, 2024

Variable rates of flatback turtles hatching on Western Australia's Pilbara beaches

Climate change will impact the emergence success and sex ratio of flatback turtle hatchlings in the Pilbara region of Western Australia within the next two decades, according to a new study.

Plants & Animals Mar 22, 2024

Novel microsatellite tags hold promise for illuminating sea turtles' cryptic lost years

In the new article "Novel Microsatellite Tags Hold Promise for Illuminating the Lost Years in Four Sea Turtle Species" published in Animals, researchers tested new prototypes of microsatellite tags on 160 juvenile sea turtles ...

Ecology Mar 20, 2024

Characterizing salps as predators of marine microbes

A huge fraction of global flows of carbon and other nutrients pass through marine microbes. Little is known about their causes of death, however. This information determines where those nutrients will go.

Paleontology & Fossils Mar 13, 2024

Newly discovered fossil of giant turtle is named after Stephen King novel character

An international research team led by Dr. Gabriel S. Ferreira from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen has described a new species of giant turtle from the late Pleistocene.

Plants & Animals Mar 11, 2024

Halloween toy among plastics swallowed by sea turtles

A Halloween toy was among hundreds of plastic items found in the guts of dead sea turtles in the Mediterranean, a new study reveals.

Plants & Animals Mar 7, 2024

Sharks, turtles and other sea creatures face greater risk from industrial fishing than previously thought

My colleagues and I mapped activity in the northeast Pacific of "dark" fishing vessels—boats that turn off their location devices or lose signal for technical reasons. In our new study published in Science Advances, we found ...

Plants & Animals Mar 5, 2024

Lights on fishing nets can protect sea turtles

Lights on fishing nets could help save the Mediterranean's threatened sea turtles, new research shows. The work is published in the journal Fisheries Research.

Plants & Animals Mar 4, 2024

Lab-grown liver organoid to speed up turtle research and make useful traits easier to harness

At a Biotechnology Council event a few years ago, Nicole Valenzuela's ears perked up when she heard what a group of researchers in Iowa State University's College of Veterinary Medicine had in the works: a method for creating ...

Plants & Animals Mar 4, 2024

No, overwintering turtles don't breathe through their butts: Getting to the bottom of a popular misconception

On a crisp February day, a filmmaker and I were walking across the 45-centimeter-thick ice covering Opinicon Lake, a small lake in eastern Ontario. We were heading for a very special spot where hundreds of northern map turtles ...

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