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Warming Marine Waters Skewing Gender Balance of Turtles, Study Says

2016-02-05 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: Rising global temperatures may be skewing the gender makeup of marine turtles, according to new research from Florida State University. The gender of marine hatchlings is influenced by the temperature of the sands in which they incubate, with warmer temperatures producing more females. It's worrying that you could have an extreme skew in gender one way," said Mariana Fuentes, an assistant professor of oceanography at FSU. "Any changes in population structure can have real repercussions. The scientists...

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