Shell-cracking #turtles defied mass extinction at the end of the #Cretaceous period https://phys.org/news/2026-03-shell-turtles-defied-mass-extinction.html #Paleoart by @JoschuaKnuppe

Ecological selectivity of diet on turtle K/Pg survivorship https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article/22/3/20250790/481023/Ecological-selectivity-of-diet-on-turtle-K-Pg

"turtles that fed on hard-shelled organisms such as gastropods and bivalves survived the mass #extinction largely unscathed. And they were more than five times more likely to survive than turtles that hunted fish or that were purely herbivorous."

#nature -inspired works by my friends Lek & Bae 💚💛🩵
both're available & affordable, nice large sizes, painted w/oil pain on canvas 💚💛🩵
msg me if you dig either one & would like to ask about them, great deals on both of them 💚💛🩵

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Siesta time! ^.^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leJlkPtwZ2g

Why turtles yawn: https://www.facttoon.com/en/why-do-turtles-yawn-underwater-what-does-mean-their-survival