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01-09-2018, 09:43 AM
Climate change turns one of the world's largest green sea turtle populations mostly female
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Climate change has been disastrous for coral (http://mashable.com/2016/06/07/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching/) on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.*
It's also spelling trouble for the more than 200,000 green sea turtles which make the area home, one of the world's largest populations.*
SEE ALSO: Weather and climate disasters cost the U.S. a record $306 billion in 2017 (http://mashable.com/2018/01/08/2017-record-year-billion-dollar-disasters-third-warmest/)
Researchers are seeing young populations in the Great Barrier Reef turn almost entirely female, according to a study published in Current Biology (http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31539-7). *
Unlike humans and most other mammals whose development of sex is determined by chromosomes, the sex of reptiles (such as turtles) is determined by an egg's incubation temperature.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/08/green-sea-turtle-female/)
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Climate change has been disastrous for coral (http://mashable.com/2016/06/07/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching/) on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.*
It's also spelling trouble for the more than 200,000 green sea turtles which make the area home, one of the world's largest populations.*
SEE ALSO: Weather and climate disasters cost the U.S. a record $306 billion in 2017 (http://mashable.com/2018/01/08/2017-record-year-billion-dollar-disasters-third-warmest/)
Researchers are seeing young populations in the Great Barrier Reef turn almost entirely female, according to a study published in Current Biology (http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31539-7). *
Unlike humans and most other mammals whose development of sex is determined by chromosomes, the sex of reptiles (such as turtles) is determined by an egg's incubation temperature.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/08/green-sea-turtle-female/)
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