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Could adolescent reptiles learn martial arts?

You could be forgiven for thinking that the idea of teenage turtles who mutate into humanoid ninjas is a tad far-fetched. But you may be shell-shocked to learn that actually, in reality… it is.

“First of all,” says Jeanette Wyneken, professor of biological sciences at Florida Atlantic

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