Origin of the unique ventilatory apparatus of turtles: How the tortoise's ribs got embedded in its shell

Friday, November 7, 2014 - 17:00 in Biology & Nature

Through the careful study of modern and early fossil tortoise, researchers now have a better understanding of how tortoises breathe and the evolutionary processes that helped shape their unique breathing apparatus and tortoise shell.

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