On 04-Mar-23 12:36 p.m., steve rosenthal wrote:
> Reading between the lines, these folks likely have taken the
> research findings for the 'growth rings' in Arctica islandica, and
> mistakenly applied them to Mercenaria,
> which is not a valid analysis; even if they did realize they were
> comparing molluscan apples and oranges it still isn't valid.

* as a herpetologist I can affirm that there are lots of studies of 
marked Turtles which show that counting "annual rings" isn't a reliable 
way of counting up age.

fred.
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