Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean in which I babble about non-astronomy stuff, because everyone needs a hobby

Wednesday, 7 November 2018

Beware the seaweed shark !

Obligatory viewing :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgybr7BWY-w

It turns out that bonnetheads have special enzymes in their stomach acids that allow them to breakdown the cellulose found in the plant material. They were able to digest 45 per cent of the organic matter found in the seagrass putting them on a par with juvenile green sea turtles.

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