The Week (January 20)
2026/ 01/ 22 by jd in Global News
“Lizards, crocodiles and turtles have some rocky times ahead.” Their offspring’s sex springs from Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination (TSD). Warming temperatures accompanying “worsening climate change plus habitat degradation, pollution and other human influences” mean “maintaining populations is likely going to be an uphill battle.” By 2100, according to some predictions, “there could be only one sex of alligators.”
Tags: Alligators, Climate change, Crocodiles, Habitat degradation, Lizards, Pollution, Rocky times, Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination, Turtles
