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NOAA report finds threats to California's Cordell Bank Marine Sanctuary
Jun 19, 2009 |
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A new NOAA report on the health of Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary indicates that the overall condition of the sanctuary's marine life and habitats is fair to good, but identifies several emerging threats to sanctuary ...
Scientists identify world's largest leatherback turtle population
May 18, 2009 |
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An international team of scientists has identified a nesting population of leatherback sea turtles in Gabon, West Africa as the world's largest. The research, published in the May issue of Biological Conservation, involv ...
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Sea turtles begin annual nesting in Fla.
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Mar 02, 2008 |
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Leatherback sea turtles are coming ashore in Florida's Brevard County for their annual nesting season.
Revealing the evolutionary history of threatened sea turtles
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Oct 15, 2008 |
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It's confirmed: Even though flatback turtles dine on fish, shrimp, and mollusks, they are closely related to primarily herbivorous green sea turtles. New genetic research carried out by Eugenia Naro-Maciel, ...
Turtle nesting threatened by logging practices in Gabon, Smithsonian warns
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Mar 14, 2008 |
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Endangered sea turtles are victims of sloppy logging practices in the west central African country Gabon, according to a study led by William Laurance, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. The study ...
Isotope analysis reveals foraging area dichotomy for Atlantic leatherback turtles
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Mar 26, 2008 |
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The beaches of French Guiana constitute a major reproduction site for leatherback turtles. This sea turtle, although a protected species, is threatened by human activity: it ingests plastics, get accidentally caught in fishing ...
Prehistoric Turtle Threatened by Modern Menace
Mar 13, 2009 |
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They survived the extinction of the dinosaurs. They're descendants of one of the oldest family trees in history, spanning 100 million years. But today leatherback turtles, the most widely distributed reptiles ...
Oldest sea turtle fossil unveiled in Mexico
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Mar 06, 2009 |
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Paleontologists on Thursday unveiled the oldest fossil remains of a sea turtle that lived 72 million years ago in northern Mexico, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said.
UNH researchers tag first-ever free-swimming leatherback turtles in New England
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Jul 31, 2008 |
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University of New Hampshire researchers have tagged one male and two female leatherback turtles off Cape Cod. They are the first free-swimming leatherbacks ever tagged in New England.
Research uncovers the hidden world of turtles
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Jun 02, 2008 |
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The frog may be the environmental indicator of the land, but University of Queensland researchers reckon when it comes to the sea, we should look to the turtle.
Uni-flipper turtle gets it straight with swimsuit
Apr 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Allison, a green sea turtle with only one flipper, has been going around and around and around for most of her life.
82 healthy sea turtles hatch at San Diego SeaWorld
Nov 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The population of endangered green sea turtles at SeaWorld in San Diego grew by 82 in October when the eggs hatched on Shipwreck Beach without human help.
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