A sea turtle’s shell is living bone fused directly to its spine and ribs. It is not a detachable shield or an external case, as certain quirky cartoons have shown. The shell grows with the turtle, ...
Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice ...
Sea turtles are the oceans’ wanderers. They live for up to a hundred years, and meander hundreds of thousands of miles. The ...
Sea turtle shells record life history layer by layer over many years, clearly revealing diet, stress, movement, and ocean ...
Seashells are so plentiful that you may sometimes take them for granted. Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch of beaches along the Gulf of California contained at least 2 trillion ...
Researchers at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School have developed a method to read the chemical layers inside sea turtle shells like a biological stopwatch, reconstructing years of an animal’s ...