RE: Sea turtles use temperature-dependent sex determination instead of the commonly used sex chromosome, but climate change have shifted some populations to hatching as 99.8 % females!

[tony10]

99% females. I bet the 1% is having a whale of a time ; )
Jokes aside this is seriously scary there will be serious knock on effects from this I am sure.

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[valth]

Haha, they surely are!

Yeah, I would think we get some huge side effects of this as well. I'm not too familiar with how the role of the sea turtles is in the ecosystem and the food webs, but I'm sure the upcoming population change will have some consequences.

[tony10]

I know they eat a lot of sea grasses so I would expect the grasses to start to choke their rivals if the turtle population drops