According to the team, this research indicates that ghost crabs are effective predators of the early life phase of sea turtles with a taste for meat.
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Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
10 July 2025
With their milkweed diet being a core tenet to how monarchs protect themselves from predators, other butterfly species have evolved to resemble monarchs’ coloring as a way to gain protection.
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