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[great-and-small]

Happy fourth 🫡

[animalids]

Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)

Photo by Xabier Mina

[dendroica]

Common Snapping Turtle (via USFWS Mountain-Prairie)

A common snapping turtle photographed at GPNFH

Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery, Yankton, SD.

Photo: Sam Stukel, USFWS

[animalids]

Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)

Photo by Sandy Hill

[animalids]

Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)

Photo by Shawn Miller

[animalids]

Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)

Photo by Jon Atkinson

[dendroica]

Young Common Snapping Turtle (Chelydra serpentina) along dike 10 June 2011 (via U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region)

Common snapping turtle at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

Credit: Steve Arena/USFWS

[thoughtlessarse]

A turtle lays its eggs on a beach in Yemen’s Mahra province, near the border with Oman. With sands made hotter by climate change, eggs are rarely yielding male turtles, which require cooler temperatures during the incubation period - Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

You can read more about the threat to turtles and other temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) species here. My personal hope is that since many of these species have survived earlier high temperature periods, they may do so again. We may even see a lot more parthenogenesis in these species.

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