For some, the name 'Bikini Bottom' will be synonymous with a pineapple under the sea — the fictional home of SpongeBob SquarePants. But the underwater world of the quirky cartoon character is based on a real place in the Pacific Ocean — and one with a dark history.
which discovered nuclear contamination in the shells of turtles, including in the Marshall Islands, suggesting they may have survived 20th-century nuclear testing.But it was a different animated character — not SpongeBob — that he referenced in the introduction of his research paper.
Bert the turtle featured in a US government film educating children how to "duck and cover" from nuclear threats. Dr Conrad's team tested sea turtle samples from Enewetak Atoll collected in 1978 from the stomach of a tiger shark.
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