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.*
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