Sea turtle shells reveal hidden records of ocean change

Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice ...
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Shell-cracking turtles were more likely to survive the end-Cretaceous

Turtles that crushed hard-shelled prey like clams and snails were reported to be more than five times more likely to survive ...
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“It’s a bit like sea turtle forensics." Scientists looked inside 24 turtles – and uncovered secrets from the past

Sea turtles are the oceans’ wanderers. They live for up to a hundred years, and meander hundreds of thousands of miles. The ...

Shell-cracking turtles defied mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period

The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on ...