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 ...
Techniques developed to study the distant past—from dating ancient artifacts to reconstructing climate records in ice ...
Researchers at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School have developed a method to read the chemical layers inside sea turtle shells like a biological stopwatch, reconstructing years of an animal’s ...
By studying the chemical fingerprints inside each layer, scientists have been able to learn about the turtles’ lives and the ...
Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch of beach on the Gulf of California contained at least 2 trillion shells ...
A sea turtle’s shell is living bone fused directly to its spine and ribs. It is not a detachable shield or an external case, as certain quirky cartoons have shown. The shell grows with the turtle, ...
The deep sea is a dark, cold place. It's just a few degrees above freezing, subject to immense pressure, and beyond the reach of the sunlight needed for photosynthesis. The life that does survive in ...