Hurricane Walaka wiped out a small Hawaiian island, which could be devastating for some endangered animals, and new research says that we might be wrong about the origins of giant tortoises.
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Sources:
Island:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evw337/hurricane-walaka-caused-remote-east-island-hawaii-to-disappear-sea-level
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/us/hawaii-east-island-disappears-walaka.html?rref=collectionsectioncollectionscience
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/hurricane-wipes-six-foot-high-east-island-from-the-face-of-the-planet
7 researchers evacuated from Papahanaumokuakea as storm nears
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshws.php
http://www.turtles.org/hawgrnd.htm
Tortoises:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/mh-teh102318.php
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cla.12227
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Images:
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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/nsfc-nsw100118.php
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walaka_2018-10-02_0054Z.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:East_Island,_Hawaii_before_and_after_Hurricane_Walaka.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tern_Island.JPG
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/mh-teh102318.php
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/galapagos-giant-tortoise-turtle-galapagos-islands-ecuador-gm812444230-131433345
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