Endangered hawksbill turtles make a surprise appearance
Thursday, September 1, 2011 - 02:30
in Biology & Nature
Scientists find a population of endangered hawksbill turtles unexpectedly making a go of it in mangrove estuaries.Scientists have made the surprise discovery that a population of critically endangered hawksbill turtles, thought to have been wiped out in the eastern Pacific from Mexico to Peru, has survived by occupying a novel habitat — mangrove estuaries — rather than coral reefs where they have been slaughtered for their exquisite shells.