Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice ...
Sea turtle shells record life history layer by layer over many years, clearly revealing diet, stress, movement, and ocean ...
Learn how researchers use archaeological techniques to show how sea turtle shells grow in layers that capture chemical clues ...
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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 ...
By studying the chemical fingerprints inside each layer, scientists have been able to learn about the turtles’ lives and the ...
Turtles with shell-cracking jaws were far more likely to survive extinction due to their ability to be sustained on a restricted diet.
How smushed shells could help to resolve paleontological mysteries. By Asher Elbein You never know where a bit of unusual scientific research is going to lead. Consider a 2012 study about turtle ...
On a warm morning in Virginia, a wildlife researcher walks slowly through a patchwork of forest and farmland, eyes scanning ...
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