The turtle that has NO gender at birth: How nest temperature decides male or female

Ancient snapping turtles, vital to North American wetlands, face a unique threat from rising global temperatures. Their ...
CNN

Why 99% of sea turtle babies are now born female, according to scientists

Florida’s sea turtles are grappling with a unique problem made worse by climate change: recent heat waves have caused the sand on some beaches to get so hot that nearly every turtle born was female.
Business Insider

Sea turtles laid a record 52,500 nests in Florida but 99% are female

Sea turtle nests hit record highs in Florida this year, tripling last year's numbers. Most new turtles are girls, because a turtle's sex depends on the temperature they sit in as an egg. This is ...
Poynter

Are hotter Florida summers forcing all-female sea turtle hatchlings?

Some social media users are claiming that rising temperatures are affecting the ratio of male to female sea turtles in Florida. A post on Twitter claims that every sea turtle born in Florida this year ...
Business Insider

No male sea turtles are being born in Florida because hotter sand from climate change is producing only females, scientist said

All of sea turtles that hatched in Florida recorded this year were female, a turtle hospital said. Climate change is warming up the beaches, which is skewing the sex balance towards more females.
FOX5 Las Vegas

Rising temperatures are causing more sea turtles to be female

MIAMI, Fla. (WSVN) – Climate change impacts our whole ecosystem, even down to sea turtles which have existed on Earth for more than 100 million years. Experts say more sea turtles in Florida and ...
People

Sea Turtles Born in Florida Are All Females Due to State's Rising Temperatures, Scientists Say

Scientists studying sea turtle hatchlings and eggs have found no male baby sea turtles on Florida beaches for the past four years Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been ...
Yahoo

Largest freshwater turtle species doomed to extinction after last female washes up dead

This close-up of the Rafetus swinhoei turtle shows its head and patterned skin. The Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei), the world's largest freshwater turtle and one of the most ...
The Atlantic

What About the Female Turtle? Remembering Venus de Milo, TMNT’s Lost Member

As Michael Bay’s new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles adaptation gets set to hit theaters – only seven years after the last such film – audiences are left gawking at the rather monstrous new forms for the ...
Daily Hampshire Gazette

Speaking of Nature: Pressure is on for the spotted turtle: Now is the point in the turtle life cycle when female turtles are most vulnerable

The spotted turtle is a very rare turtle in Massachusetts, but it is impossible to mistake for any other species. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON The story of this spring has been the weather; ...
Yahoo

Hotter summers mean Florida's turtles are mostly born female

MARATHON, Fla. (Reuters) - Florida's sea turtles are grappling with a gender imbalance made worse by climate change. Recent heat waves have caused the sand on some beaches to get so hot that nearly ...