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Originally Posted by expansa1

Everytime we had our gravid turtles X-rayed the eggs were sterilised. Each time we used a turtle that consistently laid fertile eggs. The year after, each animal was not x-rayed and the eggs were fertile and hatched! The results speak for themselves!
Cheers,
Craig
ps the x-rays were taken for a book I am writing!

So because one animal had xrays - it must have been them that caused the eggs to be sterile? I think you need to collect a bit more data - no statistical significance with that. I have heard of many turtle eggs that have been xrayed and were fine.