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  1. 🦖☄️ 66 million years ago, an #asteroid wiped out 75% of #Earth’s species. The survivors – small #birds, #mammals, #turtles, and #fish – shared key traits: a small body size, the ability to burrow or shelter in #water, and flexible diets. Researchers explain how size, diet, and luck determined who lived and who didn’t.

    👉 livescience.com/animals/how-di

    #dinosaurs #extinction #paleontology #survival #evolution #cretaceous #science #animals #fossils #naturalhistory #nature #history

  2. Apparently it's #WorldTurtleDay.

    We don't get turtles around here as a general rule but I did release a track about space turtles a little while ago..

    It even has a video. With turtles, courtesy of a few lovely contributors on Pixabay.

    video.key13.uk/sun-moon-stars/

    #key13 #turtle #turtles

  3. Der 23. Mai ist seit dem Jahr 2000 der Welt-Schildkrötentag. Ihr Stammbaum ist sehr alt und reicht ca. 220 Millionen Jahre zurück, also weit vor den Dinosauriern. Heute gibt es rund 320 Schildkrötenarten plus Unterarten. Die einzige in Deutschland beheimatet Art ist vom Aussterben bedroht.

    umwelttage.info/umwelttage-im-

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    #tiere #schildkröten #turtles #umwelttage #22mai #may23 #baldwald

    PS: Der Begriff "World Turtle Day" ist von Susan Tellem aus Malibu, Kalifornien geschützt worden.

  4. Illustration by Friedrich Lehmann, Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, from Anatome Testudinis Europaeae (1821).

    Source: Harvard University / Biodiversity Heritage Library

    pdimagearchive.org/images/564f

    #anatomy #zoology #dissection #turtles #bojanus #art #publicdomain

  5. #Nature #Turtles #Wisconsin
    Snapping turtle in middle of road. I managed to coerce it back into the swamp off road. If you are in Wisconsin, you can report sightings here: survey123.arcgis.com/share/c44