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.
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Sea turtle shells act as a tissue clock for tracking ocean change
Researchers at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School have developed a method to read the chemical layers inside sea ...
Sea turtle shells record life history layer by layer over many years, clearly revealing diet, stress, movement, and ocean ...
New "tissue clock" technique reconstructs sea turtle life histories from shell chemistryMIAMI — Techniques developed to study the distant past—from ...
The shells of chelonians—think turtles, tortoises, and sea turtles—grow in layers, keeping a time-stamped record of environmental conditions. Uranium has shown up in the layers of turtles’ and ...
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