#marineturtles — Public Fediverse posts
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Dead turtles with bleeding eyes wash up on Port Stephens swimming beaches
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-20/dead-bleeding-turtles-wash-up-on-port-stephens-beaches/105671910
#MarineTurtles #biodiversity #NSW #swimming #FoamAndBlooms #HotOcean #ocean #climate -
New #fossil was one of the largest #MarineTurtles ever https://phys.org/news/2022-11-fossil-largest-marine-turtles.html
A gigantic bizarre marine #turtle (#Testudines: #Chelonioidea) from the Middle #Campanian (Late #Cretaceous) of South-western Europe https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22619-w
#Leviathanochelys is the largest #MarineTurtle ever discovered in Europe, and one of the largest found worldwide. These findings indicate that #gigantism in marine turtles developed independently in different lineages in both North America and Europe.