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Turtles' Shells Preserve Post-World War II Nuclear History, Enduring Uranium Signatures Even Decades After: Study

The shells of turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles show a remarkable connection to our 20th-century nuclear history. This astounding revelation comes to light in a new study, which casts an enduring ...
Gizmodo

Could DNA Have Survived 6 Million Years Inside a Turtle Shell?

A team of paleontologists studying the fossilized shell of a sea turtle from the Miocene Epoch found something surprising and perhaps impossible: preserved bone cells that they believe may contain ...

The Living Record: What Turtle Shells Tell Us About a Changing Sea

Sea turtles have an average lifespan of 20 to 30 years. During that timeframe, they experience changes in ocean chemistry, ...
Woodland Daily Democrat

Turtle and bullfrog eradication continues Cache Creek Nature Preserve

Some success is being seen in the second month of what could be a years-long effort to eradicate invasive red-eared slider turtles and bullfrogs from the Cache Creek Nature Preserve. The effort began ...
IFLScience

Could DNA Have Survived 6 Million Years Inside A Turtle Shell?

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