Welcome to the final week of the Great Turtle Race everyone! I’m Rowdy Gaines, with Mr Leatherback, and we are
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Mission Sea Turtle
Here’s your mission should you choose to accept it: hold you breath for a month, eat an entire salad bar, swim a marathon a day for 2 weeks, while figuring out how to get to a place you haven’t been to since you were a baby 30 years ago, without the help of signs, GPS, maps, helpful policemen or Google Earth, then at your destination mate non-stop for a few weeks, lay a few hundred eggs at night in a hole you dug with your back feet without looking, now swim back to where you came from to eat some more salad bars and get ready to do it again. Each year. For the rest of your life. Which is long.
Gigantothermy Lets Leatherbacks (and Dinosaurs) Go Where No Other Reptiles Dare to Go
When you think of a turtle, you probably think of those hard-shelled, slow-moving, reptilian relics whose ancestry stretches back hundreds
