Entries for tag "loggerhead"
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wallacejnichols
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April 15, 2007
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Introduction A solitary loggerhead turtle in the middle of a vast ocean may not sound like an adventure film, but stick with her. Along her 9,000-mile voyage to nest, our loggerhead tour guide in Voyage of the Lonely Turtle encounters hammerhead sharks, deep ocean tempests, and man-made death traps in…
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wallacejnichols
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Feb. 1, 2007
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Ten years ago today, Adelita, a female loggerhead sea turtle, was about halfway across the Pacific Ocean, a few hundred miles northwest of Hawaii. Adelita was the first sea turtle to wear a radio transmitter bonded to her shell, and head out across the Pacific Ocean. She was originally captured…
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wallacejnichols
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May 1, 2003
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Nichols, WJ. 2003. Biology and conservation of sea turtles in Baja California, Mexico. Doctoral thesis. University of Arizona. 488 pp. ABSTRACTI studied the in-water anthropogenic impacts on sea turtles, origins of sea turtles on foraging and developmental areas, their migration routes, and described regionally appropriate conservation needs. Sea turtles inhabiting…
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wallacejnichols
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Jan. 30, 2002
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Academy herpetologist Wallace J. Nichols is working with fisherman and using the latest technologies to help save threatened loggerhead sea turtles. Loggerhead turtles have swum our oceans for 100 million years, inspiring folklore, songs, and art from Japan to California. Yet, not much is known about them. Nichols knows why.…
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wallacejnichols
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July 19, 1999
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Like their cousin the tortoise, sea turtles may take their time, but they are remarkably persistent, according to new evidence from an Earthwatch sponsored researcher. A tag was recovered in Baja, Mexico, from the flipper of a Loggerhead sea turtle that was tagged in Japan. The tag confirms that endangered…
