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Those that nobody calculates.
Mesozoic plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, and ichthyosaurs are long extinct, now the most conspicuous and familiar marine reptiles are the sea turtles, consisting of seven species present in tropical and subtropical marine habitats in all of the world’s oceans. Like the sea turtle, another groups of reptiles re-entered the oceans: we are speaking about sea snakes. This…
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What’s your sexuality?
In the past, homosexual behavior was often ignored because it supposedly contradicted Darwin’s theory of evolution. We consider that if sexual behaviors such as mounting and contact between the genitals develop in the context of reproduction, because these occur between individuals of the same sex in which such behaviors cannot lead to fertilization and the…
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Changing climate
Climate change: “A change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer. Climate change may be due to natural internal processes or external forcings, or to…
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Take your time and stay alive
Unlike other marine organisms, and equally to other reptiles, the sex of sea turtles and the speed of development are determined by the exposure temperature during embryonic development, and more precisely by the temperature of the eggs during the middle third of incubation.
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The great loss
Since ancient times, Pinna nobilis has been a resource for mankind, but today’s pressure from mankind is much more relevant than in the past. In fact, this organism is threatened by illegal trawling, coastal construction, anchoring, illegal mining and pollution. All these activities degrade the habitat and compromise the vitality of the eggs and larval…
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