The folks over at the Outside magazine blog clued me into the news yesterday about new leatherback sea turtle data from Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station.They tracked 46 turtles on their migratory route, and as it turns out, the leatherbacks swam a very specific path, thousands of miles out to an area near the Galapagos known as the South Pacific Gyre -- before returning to Costa Rica to nest.
amazing turtle race
Posted by emily | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 6:36pm
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Categories: Marine Life | Keywords: amazing turtle race, bycatch, highway, leatherback sea turtles, NMFS, Saphira, south pacific gyre, stanford
