A possible lead on Great A-tuin's sex

[unseenu]

Another interesting bit of turtle biology that may help is that eggs develop into females when the egg is over a certain temperature.Maybe when star turtles hatch the ones nearest the star have the most warmth and therefore become females.

[raisindot]

I'm pretty certain that none of the great sea turtles return to their eggs once they have laid them. They return to the same beach to lay each time, but once the eggs are laid, the hatchlings are on their own.

That may be true, but none of the great sea turtles has four elephants on their back holding up a pizza-shaped world, either.

[unseenu]

Ok the poll's looking pretty conclusive

[Cool Middle Name]

It certainly wouldn't be for a male

Anyway, how do we know what's typical for a space turtle? We only know one. So, taking the view of palaeontologists, we have insufficient data, so for argument's sake we assume a similarity with what we do know. Proximity to eggs = female. There!

If there's only one, then naturally it would be genderless.

[Dotsie]

We only know one. But there's more than one, because the eggs hatched

[author3]

like most most people I believe shes female