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."