#alas. foiled by raph and a ''no mad scientist tests on yourself'' rule

[quartergremlin]

I want to add that while for some turtle species the sex determination is based on temperature, for some it's genetic. For soft shell turtle species it seems to be a bit of a controversial topic, whether or not it's GSD or TSD, but from very quick googling it seems that a spiny softshell turtle specifically has a genetic sex determination system. I think it's cool that there's this variation among turtles, if I started my uni biology studies now I would probably want to focus more on turtles!

oh thats so cool (≧∇≦)ﾉ

i could see donnie attempting to run some rudimentary tests on themself as a kid to try and figure it out once and for all