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Loggerhead turtles take 45 years to grow up

Loggerhead turtles take almost half a century to reach maturity, say scientists.

A female turtle, the researchers report in the journal Functional Ecology, will not start to lay eggs until she is 45. This estimate, based on examination of several decades of data on the turtles” growth, has implications for conservation efforts… Source

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