Many sea turtle stocks are in decline worldwide due to excessive harvesting and destruction
of nesting and foraging habitats.^ Yet population abundance for many stocks can display …

This document reviews the salient and current literature on the biology of the green turtle,
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) including taxonomy, distribution, physiology, morphology …

Marine turtles depart functionally and moiphologically from other chelonian lin eages. Their
form of locomotion and of their locomotor adaptations, perhaps more than any other …

Perceiving in Depth is a sequel to Binocular Vision and Stereopsis and to Seeing in Depth,
both by Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers. This three-volume work is much broader in …

The success of the first volume of The Biology of Sea Turtles revealed a need for broad but
comprehensive reviews of major recent advances in sea turtle biology. Biology of Sea …

Adult sea turtles are among the largest living reptiles and the only reptiles that exhibit long-
distance migrations that rival those of terrestrial and avian vertebrates. Many details of these …

Aim Resources can shape patterns of habitat utilization. Recently a broad foraging
dichotomy between oceanic and coastal sites has been revealed for loggerhead sea turtles …

The movements of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus thynnus) have captured the
interest of scientists and fishers since the time of Aristotle. This tuna is unique among bony …

WHETHER migratory animals can determine their global position by detecting features of
the Earth's magnetic field has long been debated1–4. To do this an animal must perceive (at …

Highly pelagic large marine vertebrates have evolved the capability of moving across large
expanses of the marine environment; some species routinely move across entire ocean …