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From the 1800s through the 1950s, people clamored for the delicacy green turtle soup. Though the color describes the hue of the soup, one turtle commonly used for the dish – the Chelonia mydas – has become known as the green sea turtle. This species was almost wiped out, over-harvested for the soup.
Read more: Turtle drones: Watching courtship and mating from the air could be key to saving species
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There are amazing discoveries being made within the 90 downtown Birmingham blocks that we call our campus. University of Alabama at Birmingham scholars and trainees put in endless hours to their work – finding solutions to problems and answers to mysteries that affect Alabama, the U.S. and the world.
Read more: Discoveries in the Making launching at Hoover, Homewood libraries February 2016