Shell Game: Making Sense of Turtle Variation (IMAGE)

Florida Museum of Natural History

Shell Game: Making Sense of Turtle Variation

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Eastern box turtles display a dizzying amount of variation, both in modern and fossil specimens. But plotting shell shape reveals patterns and captures aspects like curvature -- things that are hard to measure in just a single linear feature.

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Coleman Sheehy / Florida Museum

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