Figure 1: Turtle phylogeny and divergence time estimation by molecular clock analysis. Figure 2: Extensive expansion of olfactory receptor genes in turtles. Figure 3: The molecular divergence of ...

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

"The Xisha Islands are favored nesting grounds for green turtles. By protecting the beach where they were born, generations of sea turtles will continue to return to lay eggs," he added.

"The Xisha Islands are favored nesting grounds for green turtles. By protecting the beach where they were born, generations of sea turtles will continue to return to lay eggs," he added.

Naro-Maciel and colleagues confirmed that one major group of sea turtles includes sister species flatback and green turtles (one ... of using systematics and taxonomy as a way to prioritize ...

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 ...

For Nickel, the green sea turtle in the 90,000-gallon Caribbean Reef exhibit at the Shedd Aquarium, the journey happened in reverse. The turtle debuted at the Shedd Aquarium 20 years ago this ...

Human efforts to protect the eggs of green sea turtles from predators on a remote Taiwanese island appear to have backfired, according to a two-decade-long study. The conservation effort on Orchid ...