Turtles | SciShow Tangents Podcast

Head to https://shopify.com/scishow to learn more and for a free trial. Thanks to Shopify, a commerce platform that helps you start, grow, and manage your business, for supporting SciShow. Want to show off your love for butt-breathing, mouth-pissing turtles? Head over to DFTBA and grab our all-new, super-special, limited-time t-shirt for this episode: https://store.dftba.com/products/butt-breathing-mouth-pissing-shirt?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=sst_turtles Devotees of the testudines rejoice! Whether you have one as a pet, admire them at the zoo, or giggle with the rest of the internet when they rock each other off logs, chances are high, we think, that you like turtles. We like turtles! And conveniently for us, turtle science is also extremely cool, so this was basically an ideal episode to make. Enjoy! Want more SciShow Tangents? Check out hundreds more episodes of our podcast here: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com, or wherever you get your podcasts! Head to https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to find great SciShow Tangents merch! A big thank you to Patreon subscriber Garth Riley for helping to make the show possible! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen [Truth or Fail] Fossilized turtle poop showing green algae feast site https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/995472 https://www.science.org/content/article/sea-turtles-have-3000-year-old-routines Crushing of fossilized turtle shells shows burial site age https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/science/turtle-shells-fossils-paleontology.html https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/18/5/1524/616297/Crushed-turtle-shells-Proxies-for-lithification Turtle fossil was actually a plant fossil https://www.livescience.com/animals/120-million-year-old-plants-turn-out-to-be-ultra-rare-fossilized-baby-turtles [Trivia Question] Speed of a sand-digging robot modeled after a turtle hatchling https://today.ucsd.edu/story/bot-inspired-by-baby-turtles-can-swim-under-the-sand-1 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aisy.202200404 [Fact Off] Chinese soft-shelled turtles (basically) pee out their mouths https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/215/21/3723/19178/The-Chinese-soft-shelled-turtle-Pelodiscus https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121011090643.htm https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/aohc/63/2/63_2_181/_article https://theconversation.com/no-overwintering-turtles-dont-breathe-through-their-butts-getting-to-the-bottom-of-a-popular-misconception-224331 Microplastics in sand mess with sea turtle sex ratios https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/06/230623210244.htm#:~:text=Warmer%20temperatures%20are%20known%20to,before%20their%20sex%20is%20set. https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/temperature-dependent.html#:~:text=This%20is%20called%20temperature%2Ddependent,the%20hatchlings%20will%20be%20female. [Ask the Science Couch] Turtle communication and vocalization https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24553 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14356-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33741-8 https://gizmodo.com/jurassic-parks-dinosaur-sound-effects-were-actually-ani-5994278 https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/06/turtles-eat-south-america/ [Butt One More Thing] Collecting loggerhead sea turtle fecal samples by making them custom swimsuits https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/10/sea-turtles-don-swimsuits-science Pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/37175871@N06/albums/72157659326105212/ #scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents