An ancestral hard-shelled sea turtle with a mosaic of soft skin and scutes.
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The transition from terrestrial to marine environments by secondarily aquatic tetrapods necessitates a suite of adaptive changes associated with life in the sea, e.g., the scaleless skin in adult individuals of the extant leatherback turtle. A partial, yet exceptionally pr …
The transition from terrestrial to marine environments by secondarily aquatic tetrapods necessitates a suite of adaptive changes asso …