South Fork Natural History Museum Presents 32nd Gala Benefit, July 31
The Journey Forward: Reconnecting Through Nature to benefit SOFO s educational and environmental programs.by Alexa Criscitiello
The South Fork Natural History Museum, the only state-of-the-art natural history museum on the South Fork of Long Island, is pleased to announce that its 32nd Annual Summer Gala Benefit (The Journey Forward: Reconnecting Through Nature) will take place at the museum in Bridgehampton on Saturday, July 31st, 2021 to benefit SOFO s educational and environmental programs and initiatives empowering families to be responsible stewards of our planet.
The event will commemorate 32 years of leadership in nature conservation and education, and growth from a small nature clubhouse founded in 1988 by SOFO Board President Andrew Sabin and a group of South Fork naturalists concerned about the future of the area s fragile ecosystems, to an acclaimed state-of-the-art museum highly regarded for its ou
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They are also tough.
More than 80% of the turtle species known to have lived at the time of the dinosaurs survived a mass extinction event, the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs, according to the American Museum of Natural History.
Researchers believe the slow metabolism and aquatic lifestyles of turtles helped them survive that earth-changing event. “Turtles are very tough animals; if times get tough they can go into a state of [suspended] animation,” Tyler Lyson, a researcher from Yale University, told LiveScience in a 2011 article.
Yes, turtles are tough and vulnerable at the same time. Perhaps never more so than now.