'Hidden' hawksbill turtles found - Democratic Underground

xchrom

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Sat Sep-03-11 05:17 AM
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'Hidden' hawksbill turtles found

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/14735144

Scientists have found hawksbill turtles "hiding" in mangrove forests of the eastern Pacific.

The team, that has been tracking the turtles for three years, also found that the critically endangered animals nested in these estuaries.

The discovery of this previously unknown sea turtle habitat was published recently in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters.

It could explain why the species went undetected in the region for so long.

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WillParkinson

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Sat Sep-03-11 05:44 AM
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1. Previously unknown...

And it should have remained as such.

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xchrom

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Sat Sep-03-11 05:51 AM
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2. yeah -- you gotta wonder...nt

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