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Juvenile sea turtles don’t just drift—they swim

Scientists don’t have much insight into what sea turtles do in their early lives once they’ve hatched on land and ventured out into the ocean. But researchers looking at dispersal movements of the young turtles found evidence of them being active swimmers rather than passive drifters. In a study published in Proceedings of the Royal […]

Scientists don’t have much insight into what sea turtles do in their early lives once they’ve hatched on land and ventured out into the ocean.

But researchers looking at dispersal movements of the young turtles found evidence of them being active swimmers rather than passive drifters.