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  • Climate change is turning 99 percent of these baby sea turtles female

    01/08/2018 12:38:15 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 110 replies
    Washington Post ^ | January 8, 2018 | By Ben Guarino
    Green sea turtles do not develop into males or females due to sex chromosomes, like humans and most other mammals do. Instead, the temperature outside a turtle egg influences the sex of the growing embryo. And this unusual biological quirk, scientists say, endangers their future in a warmer world. Already, some sea turtle populations are so skewed by heat that the young reptiles are almost entirely female, according to a new report in the journal Current Biology. “This is one of the most important conservation papers of the decade,” said biologist David Owens, a professor emeritus at the College of...