by Sheril R. Kirshenbaum Loggerhead sea turtles captured the imagination of marine enthusiasts everywhere long before Crush made his big screen debut in Finding Nemo. They’re among the oldest creatures on earth and have remained essentially unchanged for 110 million years. That’s a pretty long time considering we boring ‘anatomically…
Volker Koch, Louise B. Brooks and Wallace J. Nichols, 2007. Population ecology of the green/black turtle (Chelonia mydas) in Bahía Magdalena, Mexico. Marine Biology 153(1) 35-46. Abstract The mangrove channels of Bahía Magdalena, Mexico, are important developmental areas for juvenile green, or black turtles (Chelonia mydas), but incidental bycatch and…
NMFS LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE (CARETTA CARETTA) 5-YEAR REVIEW: SUMMARY AND EVALUATION (pdf) NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE OFFICE OF PROTECTED RESOURCES, SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND AND U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE SOUTHEAST REGION, JACKSONVILLE ECOLOGICAL SERVICES FIELD OFFICE JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA AUGUST 2007 Dr. Wallace J. Nichols was contracted by the Services to…
"What's plastic foam, Grandpa?" Some day I'll be an old guy, like my father and his father. And my granddaughters will ask me questions like "what's plastic foam?" and "what's a gas station?" When that happens, I'll tell them a story about Thursday night in Capitola, an idyllic central California…
The Secret Society of Waves I’ll bet in the secret society of waves they have a lot of names that start with "ts" and that they throw cotillions for the little ones to learn how to dance and dance and bow and dance some more--back and forth and back and…
