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Adult green sea turtles spend most of their time grazing in seagrass meadows.
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Green Turtle in Seagrass

Adult green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) spend most of their time grazing in...
A newly hatched leatherback turtle moves in the sand.
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Habitat for Leatherback Turtles

Endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtles now have nearly 42,000 square miles of...
Sea Turtle
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Green Sea Turtle

A diet of algae and seagrasses gives this turtle (Chelonia mydas) greenish colored...
Two baby olive ridley sea turtles.
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Surveying Life On Sea Turtles

“It is strange to think of a sea turtle as an ecosystem,” says Amanda...
November 2011
Two baby olive ridley sea turtles.
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Baby Sea Turtles in Jalisco, Mexico

These baby olive ridleys (Lepidochelys olivacea) will eventually provide a home to...
A beaked whale at the ocean's surface
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Seeing with Sound: Acoustic monitoring of beaked whales

When compared to dolphins and large baleen whales, beaked whales lose a bit of the...
November 2017

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