Learn how researchers use archaeological techniques to show how sea turtle shells grow in layers that capture chemical clues about diet, movement, and ocean change over time.
Sea turtle shells record life history layer by layer over many years, clearly revealing diet, stress, movement, and ocean ...
Scientists have estimated that just one small stretch of beach on the Gulf of California contained at least 2 trillion shells ...
Researchers at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School have developed a method to read the chemical layers inside sea turtle shells like a biological stopwatch, reconstructing years of an animal’s ...
By studying the chemical fingerprints inside each layer, scientists have been able to learn about the turtles’ lives and the ...