Death of a loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) from ingestion of an eel (Myrichthys ocellatus)
Veterinární Medicína, 2020 Gastrointestinal perforation in sea turtles may be associated with the ingestion of solid waste; however, other factors, including the ingestion of marine organisms, may cause intestinal perforation.
Radan Elvis Matias de Oliveira +11 more
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Injuries in deep time: interpreting competitive behaviours in extinct reptiles via palaeopathology. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT For over a century, palaeopathology has been used as a tool for understanding evolution, disease in past communities and populations, and to interpret behaviour of extinct taxa. Physical traumas in particular have frequently been the justification for interpretations about aggressive and even competitive behaviours in extinct taxa.
Scott M, Gamble JA, Brown CM, Brink KS.
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A new model of forelimb ecomorphology for predicting the ancient habitats of fossil turtles
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Various morphological proxies have been used to infer habitat preferences among fossil turtles and their early ancestors, but most are tightly linked to phylogeny, thereby minimizing their predictive power. One particularly widely used model incorporates
Thomas W. Dudgeon +4 more
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Trophic interactions between larger crocodylians and giant tortoises on Aldabra Atoll, Western Indian Ocean, during the Late Pleistocene [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Today, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Aldabra Atoll is home to about 100 000 giant tortoises, Aldabrachelys gigantea, whose fossil record goes back to the Late Pleistocene. New Late Pleistocene fossils (age ca.
Torsten M. Scheyer +5 more
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Late Miocene Turtles of Grytsiv (western Ukraine) with Rodent Gnaw Marks on the Carapace Surface
Zoodiversity, 2023 The paper describes a series of turtle remains from the Early Late Miocene of Grytsiv (Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine). This fossil assemblage was quite diverse and included representatives of four families (Emydidae, Geoemydidae, Testudinidae, and ...
V. Yanenko, O. Kovalchuk
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Marine debris ingestion and the use of diagnostic imaging in sea turtles: A review
Veterinární Medicína, 2020 Worldwide, sea turtles are affected by anthropic waste. Animals, unable to differentiate anthropic waste from food, ingest this waste from their surroundings.
Radan Elvis Matias de Oliveira +7 more
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, 2023 Published as part of Brignon, Arnaud, 2023, Les vertébrés du Kimméridgien supérieur de Fumel (Lot-et-Garonne, France) dans la collection Jacques-Ludomir Combes (1824 - 1892), pp. 55-126 in Geodiversitas 45 (2) on page 92, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2023v45a2, http://zenodo.org/record ...
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Anatomopathological findings of Testudines necropsied in the Distrito Federal, Brazil [PDF]
Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2022 : In order to determine the main anatomopathological findings of Testudines necropsied in the Distrito Federal, all necropsy records performed at the “Laboratório de Patologia Veterinária” of the “Universidade de Brasília” (LPV-UnB) on Testudines during ...
Uilton G. Santos +6 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Turtles have been prominent subjects of sexual size dimorphism (SSD) analyses due to their compact taxonomy, mating systems, and habitat diversity. In prior studies, marine turtles were grouped with fully aquatic non‐marine turtles (NMATs).
Christine Figgener +2 more
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Aislamiento y serotipificación de Salmonella sp. en estanques con Crocodylus intermedius y testudines cautivos en Villavicencio - Colombia [PDF]
Revista Mvz Cordoba, 2011 Objetivo. Determinar la presencia de microorganismos del género Salmonella sp. en el ambiente acuático de los ejemplares Crocodylus intermedius y testudines en la Estación de Biología Tropical Roberto Franco (EBTRF). Materiales y métodos. En este estudio
Diana Pachón C. +2 more
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