Sea turtles use flippers to manipulate food

Sea turtles use flippers to manipulate food Sea turtles use their flippers to handle prey despite the limbs being evolutionarily designed for locomotion. Research reveals a behavior thought to be less likely in marine tetrapods is actually widespread and that this type of exaptation of flippers may have been occurring 70 million years earlier than previously thought. https://ift.tt/eA8V8J