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☆ Hurricane Otis Leaves Acapulco Sea Turtle Refuge in Ruins
  + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Nov. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +2 min
By Diego DelgadoACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) - A 35-year-old sea turtle refuge in Acapulco is fighting for its life after the most powerful hurricane on record to strike Mexico's Pacific coast tore it apart last week. Campamento Tortuguero Playa Hermosa (Playa Hermosa Turtle Camp) has since the 1980s been working on Acapulco's beachfront to protect the marine reptiles, collecting their eggs so they can safely nest, hatch and return to the Pacific Ocean. Olive ridley turtles visit the camp in the rainy season, and Vallerino was preparing for the arrival of the brown leatherback turtle in cooler waters when Otis struck. Initially forecast just to become a tropical storm, Otis strengthened with a ferocity that stunned weather experts. "Sea turtles have been around since the time of the dinosaurs and are totally enigmatic animals," she said.
Persons: Diego Delgado, Otis, Monica Vallerino, Michelle Montero, Vallerino's, Olive ridley, Vallerino, Sandra Maler Locations: Diego Delgado ACAPULCO, Mexico, Acapulco, Hermosa
☆ DNA remnants found in fossil of 6 million year old turtle
  + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
Researchers excavate the 6 million year old fossil remains of a sea turtle of the genus Lepidochelys near La Pina along the Caribbean coast of Panama in this handout photograph taken in 2015 and obtained by Reuters on September 28, 2023. Cadena said the only older vertebrate fossils than the newly described turtle to have been found with similar DNA remnants were of two dinosaurs - Tyrannosaurus, which lived about 66 million years ago, and Brachylophosaurus, which lived about 78 million years ago. Cadena said DNA remnants also have been reported in insects dating to tens of millions of years ago. The turtle is from the same genus - Lepidochelys - as two of the world's seven living species of sea turtles - the Kemp's ridley, the world's smallest sea turtle, and the olive ridley, Cadena said. "Each fossil, each fossil site has specific conditions of preservation that in some cases could have favored preservation of original biomolecular remains such as proteins and DNA," Cadena said.
Persons: Carlos de Gracia, today's Kemp's ridley, Edwin Cadena, Cadena, ridley, Kemp's ridley, Will Dunham, Elida Moreno, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS Acquire, Universidad del Rosario, Smithsonian Tropical Research, Pacific, Thomson Locations: La Pina, Panama, Handout, Bogota, Gulf of Mexico, Washington
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