Turtles

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• jpreston2005@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  OK I was going to read the links but I’m nearing the end of my daily Lemmy time and I need to ask, turtles can breathe through their skin?!?

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Some of them breathe through their butts.

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• Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can someone explain the details behind this?

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  • GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    K-pg extinction is the one that killed the dinosaurs. I guess there was a kind of turtle that died during that extinction event?

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  • GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Okay, this is really neat

    …physiology.org/…/physiologyonline.2000.15.4.181

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      www.biorxiv.org/…/2022.07.20.500661v1.full.pdf More context. :)

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  • GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    www.mcgill.ca/…/turtles-breathe-out-their-butt

    I found one part

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are you implying that turtles went extinct?

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  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, turtles never even existed, I’ve never seen one. /s

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nope. Check the links.

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• jbk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  kelvin per petagram whar

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