Study reveals turtles’ millennia-old food affair with North African seagrass

Mongabay
Aug 2, 2023, 7:17 pm178 pts
A multidisciplinary team of researchers comparing bone samples from ancient turtles with skin samples from modern-day green turtles have been able to trace the “food footprints” of this endangered species. The evidence points to these turtles returning to the same seagrass meadows on the North African coast…

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