Rising Temperatures Driving a Shift to All-Female Sea Turtle Populations
Yale E360
DECEMBER 4, 2020
Whether marine turtles are born male or female is dependent on the temperature of their nest during incubation. As global temperatures rise, scientists have found that the sand around the Red Sea is now warm enough to cause hatchlings in the area to be born almost entirely female , threatening the future survival of the region’s sea turtle population.
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