Conservation Good News for Green Turtles Over 50 years of protection has led to extreme benefits for green turtle populations.
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…