Helping Queen Conchs Spark Their Sex Drive In The Florida Keys

Jenny Staletovich, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Mon, 07/15/2024 - 1:27pm

In shallow water not far from the Florida Keys’ famed Seven Mile Bridge, a herd of the state’s flamboyantly pink queen conchs is struggling to survive. Warming seas and wild swings in temperature have shut down their reproductive impulses in the waist-deep water, leaving them to creep along the ocean floor, searching for food but not love.

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