Tiny trackers reveal the secret lives of young sea turtles
by Sarah Zielinski
9:00am, December 22, 2017
Not so long ago, the lives of sea turtles were largely a mystery. From the time that hatchlings left the beaches where they were born to waddle into the ocean until females returned to lay their eggs, no one really knew where the turtles went or what they did.
Then researchers started attaching satellite trackers to young turtles. And that’s when scientists discovered that the turtles aren’t just passive ocean drifters; they actively swim at least some of the time.
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/wild-things/tiny-trackers-reveal-secret-lives-young-sea-turtles?tgt=nr
