(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and satellite-linked data loggers to learn more about turtle behavior in commercial fishing areas and to develop new ways to avoid catching turtles ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 28, 2009
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A new low-cost sensor designed to resemble a sea turtle egg enables scientists to monitor nests remotely and predict when hatchlings will emerge almost to the day—providing valuable information for conservation efforts ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 26, 2022
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Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) are opportunistic carnivores that primarily feed on invertebrates and fish. In the wild, they eat a variety of food items depending on their life stage and geographic location. For ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 27, 2021
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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 ...
Plants & Animals
May 5, 2021
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A loggerhead turtle whose left fin was destroyed in a shark attack is rehabbing at Zoo Miami's new Sea Turtle Hospital, where veterinarians were able to save more than 100 of her eggs after she was rescued.
Plants & Animals
Jun 2, 2022
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The last time she felt the ocean waves swirling around her, Tabitha was near death.
Ecology
Sep 15, 2020
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For approximately 3,000 years, generations of green sea turtles have returned to the same seagrass meadows to eat.
Ecology
Jul 17, 2023
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An illegal trade in marine turtles is continuing despite legislation and conservation awareness campaigns, a pioneering study has shown.
Ecology
May 13, 2016
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Threatened loggerhead sea turtles in the northern Gulf of Mexico can travel distances up to several hundred miles and visit offshore habitats between nesting events in a single season, taking them through waters impacted ...
Ecology
Jul 15, 2013
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Queensland biological researcher has led the Moreton Bay release of four turtles that suffered starvation and illness from the January floods.
Ecology
Dec 1, 2011
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