Ocean Blog

Researchers at the University of Swansea in Britain recently published a study in the British Journal of Experimental Biology with an explanation of the mysterious deep diving behavior of leatherback sea turtles. Sea turtles spend most of their time in shallow surface waters, where they eat and breed, but occasionally they will make a break toward the bottom of the ocean and dive to more than ¾ of a mile below the surface of the water.

While on vacation in Cape Cod, Massachusetts last week my mom happened upon an article in the paper that announced the release of five endangered sea turtles back into the Atlantic Ocean.

I read a piece over at Dot Earth that discussed two very different takes on the issue of threatened, endangered or extinct species. Wilson’s Law, coined by Edward Wilson, a writer and biologist, says, in essence, “If you save the living environment and the biodiversity that we have left, you will also automatically save the physical environment, too.” In other words, we must work to save the Earth's physical environment, as well as its many species.