Climate change turns one of the world's largest green sea turtle populations mostly f
 

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 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.*

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Researchers are seeing young populations in the Great Barrier Reef turn almost entirely female, according to a study published in Current Biology. *

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...

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