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Turtles are also used as marketing tools to give products the appearance of being environmentally friendly. [3] One of the most famous rescued sea turtles was "Allie", a 250 lb (113 kg), 50-year-old female loggerhead sea turtle rescued by a local commercial fisherman at Alligator Point, Florida, on May 15, 2012.
The 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera shows Russian women wearing early two-piece swimsuits, which expose their midriff, and a few who are topless. Films of holidaymakers in Germany in the 1930s show women wearing two-piece suits, [19] In 1928, Speedo introduced their racerback silk suit that was optimized to fit the body shape. [20] [21]
Sea turtles can be found in all oceans except for the polar regions. The flatback sea turtle is found solely on the northern coast of Australia. The Kemp's ridley sea turtle is found solely in the Gulf of Mexico and along the East Coast of the United States. [30] Sea turtles are generally found in the waters over continental shelves.
[109] [110] The oldest known soft-shelled turtles and sea turtles appeared during the Early Cretaceous. [ 111 ] [ 112 ] Tortoises originated in Asia during the Eocene . [ 113 ] A late surviving group of stem-turtles, the Meiolaniidae , survived in Australasia into the Pleistocene and Holocene .
Only about 100 of the 12,000 extant reptile species and subspecies are classed as marine reptiles, including marine iguanas, sea snakes, sea turtles and saltwater crocodiles. [ 1 ] The earliest marine reptile was Mesosaurus (not to be confused with Mosasaurus ), which arose in the Permian period of the Paleozoic era. [ 2 ]
Another Japanese tradition was the women free-divers (ama, 海女) who for 2,000 years until the 1960s collected seaweed and shellfish nude or wearing only loincloths. [116] Women farmers often worked bare-breasted during the summer [117] while other workers might be nude. [116]
A woman was busted for trying to sneak 29 protected turtles across a Vermont lake into Canada via kayak. Woman caught trying to smuggle 29 turtles from US into Canada by kayak, faces 10 years in ...
Woman wearing bikini in Chicago (1973) Evidence of bikini -style women's clothing has been found as early as 5600 BC, and the history of the bikini can be traced back to that era. Illustrations of women wearing bikini-like garments during competitive athletic events in the Roman era have been found in several locations, the most famous of which ...