Acquisition of fresh water is important to animals, and is both difficult and critical for species
residing in marine environments. Adaptive radiations to fully marine habitats were …

Since the first volume of The Biology of Sea Turtles was published in 1997, the field has
grown and matured in ways few of the authors would have predicted—particularly in the …

Since their discovery in 1958, the function of specialized salt-secreting glands in tetrapods
has been studied in great detail, and such studies continue to contribute to a general …

Physiology, environment and life history demands interact to influence marine turtle
bioenergetics and activity. However, metabolism and diving behavior of free-swimming …

Relationships between egg size, egg components, and neonate size have been
investigated across a wide range of oviparous taxa. Differences in egg traits among taxa …

Simple Summary In the last few decades, sea turtles have been threatened by a disease
called Fibropapillomatosis. Infection causes the growth of several tumors which can prevent …

Incubation temperatures, in addition to an embryo's genetic makeup, are critical in many
aspects of adequate sea turtle embryonic development. The effects of high and low …

The secondary adaptation of Cetacea to a fully marine lifestyle raises the question of their
ability to maintain their water balance in a hyperosmotic environment. Cetacea have access …

Secondarily marine vertebrates are thought to live independently of fresh water. Here, we
demonstrate a paradigm shift for the widely distributed pelagic sea snake, Hydrophis …

It is generally assumed that leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea), like other species of
sea turtle, do not feed while offshore from nesting beaches, and rely instead on fat reserves …