Conservation
Good News for Green Turtles
Over 50 years of protection has led to extreme benefits for green turtle populations.
Tag: sea turtles
Ecology Sea Turtles
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galax-Sea
This team of scientists is studying microscopic organisms to help us understand more about the movement of sea turtles.
Biology Conservation Ecology Sea Turtles
“Breaking Bad” inspired robot tracks sea turtle poachers
Sea turtle populations are declining, in no small part thanks to poachers. Here, the authors use robot-eggs to track poacher…
Biological oceanography Biology Conservation Ecology Modeling Sea Turtles
Virtual Sea Turtles: Predicting the Movement of Hatchlings at Sea
A young sea turtle emerges from its nest and races toward the sea and several others are close behind as…
Cyclones
Crushed it: Sea turtles can help us understand hurricanes in the mid-Atlantic
Predicting what hurricanes will do is a matter of life and death, but when Hurricane Irene headed north in 2011,…
Genetics
The Age-Old Question about Sea Turtles
There's a lot that science has taught us about sea turtles – but we still don't know how old these…
Ecology
The Adventures of Shell-ock Holmes: A case of green sea turtles
How can scientists find sea turtles in the ocean? Traditional methods like capturing and tagging are invasive and expensive. Is…
Methodology
Want to know about water? Ask some sea creatures
There are animals that are constantly traversing places we have barely begun to understand. Animals can’t directly tell us what…
Sea Turtles
Are you jelly? Citizen scientists find jellyfish to help sea turtles
The largest leatherback ever recorded weighed 2,019 pounds, and yet this behemoth lives on a diet composed almost entirely of…
Biology Climate Change
Global Warming Increases Cold-Stun in Sea Turtles
Global warming along the eastern United States is causing sea turtles to travel further northward during the summer, but as…
Sea Turtles
Studying Sea Turtles: The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears and More
For this Turtle Tuesday, I’m reflecting on time I have spent studying and working for sea turtle conservation.
Plastic Pollution
Turtles in the Trash: How microplastics are washing up where turtles breed
Like plastic bags and other larger plastic pieces, these insidious micro particles can make their way into animal digestive tracts…
technology
Turtles unbothered by close drone monitoring, while birds and crocodiles flee
Bevan E, Whiting S, Tucker T, Guinea M, Raith A, Douglas R (2018) Measuring behavioral responses of sea turtles, saltwater…
Behavior
How to clean a sea turtle
Could you imagine if you had to actively seek out showering stations to stay clean? For sea turtles, they must…
Book Review
Turn off some lights for the turtles: using statistics to make turtle conservation tangible
You've heard about "turn down for what..."; now check out this article and figure out exactly what you're turning down…
Conservation Ecology Fisheries Hazards Human impacts Plastic Pollution Sea Turtles
Let’s Ghost Fishing for Halloween!
Ghost fishing is ghastly because it creates underwater graveyards for wildlife. The authors covered here wrote a new review of…
Biology
With a little help from my friends: sea turtles hatch together to save energy
Sea turtle hatchlings face long odds when they emerge from their buried nests. But at least they don't have to…
Behavior Biology Book Review Conservation Sea Turtles technology
For Sea Turtles, There’s No Place Like Home
Tagline: Sea turtles are occasionally released in locations that are not their home areas. But do they remain there? Find…
Physiology
Turtles turn heat exchange topsy-turvy
Counter-current heat exchange is a classic example of an elegant anatomical solution to this physiological problem. Leatherback sea turtles do…
Conservation Human impacts
Sea turtles vs Airguns
As we look for oil beneath the sea floor we cause a ruckus. How do sea turtles react and how…