Ecology
May 10, 2021
Illinois researchers working to save ornate box turtles
A team of Illinois researchers is using dogs to track down a threatened species of turtle.
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Plants & Animals
May 6, 2021
Sharks use Earth's magnetic fields to guide them like a map
Sea turtles are known for relying on magnetic signatures to find their way across thousands of miles to the very beaches where they hatched. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on May 6 have some of ...
Plants & Animals
May 5, 2021
New species of pelomedusoid turtle found in Madagascar
A team of researchers from Universität Freiburg, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Université d'Antananarivo and Stony Brook University has discovered a new species of pelomedusoid turtle in Madagascar. In their paper ...
Plants & Animals
May 5, 2021
Legendary Sargasso sea may be sea turtles' destination during mysterious 'lost years'
New research indicates that the legendary Sargasso Sea, which includes part of the Bermuda Triangle and has long featured in fiction as a place where ships go derelict, may actually be an important nursery habitat for young ...
Ecology
May 4, 2021
Cayman Islands sea turtles back from the brink
Sea turtles in the Cayman Islands are recovering from the brink of local extinction, new research shows.
Ecology
Apr 8, 2021
Steep decline in giant sea turtles seen off US West Coast
Scientists were documenting stranded sea turtles on California's beaches nearly 40 years ago when they noticed that leatherbacks—massive sea turtles that date to the time of the dinosaurs—were among those washing up on shore. ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 8, 2021
Researchers illuminate mystery of sea turtles' epic migrations
"Not all those who wander are lost ... " —J.R.R. Tolkien
Ecology
Apr 7, 2021
Parts of U.S.'s southernmost states will 'tropicalize' as climate changes
As climate change reduces the frequency and intensity of killing freezes, tropical plants and animals that once could survive in only a few subtropical parts of the U.S. are expanding their ranges northward, according to ...
Ecology
Mar 31, 2021
Seagrasses turn back the clock on ocean acidification
Spanning six years and seven seagrass meadows along the California coast, a paper published today from the University of California, Davis, is the most extensive study yet of how seagrasses can buffer ocean acidification.
Ecology
Mar 30, 2021
New rules to protect turtles from shrimp nets postponed
New rules designed to keep endangered and threatened sea turtles from drowning in some inshore shrimp nets are being postponed, and federal regulators are considering whether to expand the rules, officials said Tuesday.
