(Related: Where are all the male sea turtles going?) They outlasted the dinosaurs, but “no turtle has time to evolve to avoid being killed on a road,” says Whit Gibbons, emeritus professor of ...

Why they matter: Known as the lawnmowers of the ocean, green sea turtles eat seagrass ... executive director of Sea Turtle, Inc. “How would fish swim? How would boats move?” ...

Based on our findings, we also predicted that an individual green turtle can contain up to 26.4 grams of plastic on average, the equivalent mass of 10 ping pong balls. Where a turtle lives matters. We ...

we also predicted that an individual green turtle can contain up to 26.4 grams of plastic on average, the equivalent mass of 10 ping pong balls. Where a turtle lives matters. We found that sea ...