After peaking in 2022 with hundreds of green sea turtle strandings, cases of soft-shell syndrome are in decline. It is believed the disease is connected to the turtles' food source, after seagrass ...
COCOA, Fla.-- Florida wildlife officials are investigating a huge spike in soft shell turtle deaths throughout the St. Johns River basin. Soft shell turtles are dying along St. Johns River basin Boat ...
Figure 1: Turtle phylogeny and divergence time estimation by molecular clock analysis. Figure 2: Extensive expansion of olfactory receptor genes in turtles. Figure 3: The molecular divergence of ...
From which ancestors have turtles evolved? How did they get their shell? New data provides evidence that turtles are not primitive reptiles but belong to a sister group of birds and crocodiles. The ...