Juvenile Sea Turtles Are No Slackers

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Sea turtles six to 18 months old are active swimmers that , according to a new study in Current Biology. Scientists know little about the so-called lost years that young turtles spend at sea before returning to coastal areas to forage and reproduce. Juvenile sea turtles were thought to passively drift with ocean currents. Researchers discovered otherwise after using satellite telemetry to track 44 young turtles in the Gulf of Mexico.

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