Researcher Unravels Mystery of Sea Turtles' 'Lost Years'
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 14:40
in Biology & Nature
Jeanette Wyneken, Ph.D., associate professor of biological science at Florida Atlantic University, and Kate Mansfield, Ph.D., a co-investigator at the University of Central Florida, are the first to successfully track neonate sea turtles in the Atlantic Ocean waters during what had previously been called their "lost years." Findings from the study appear today in the journal Proceeding of the Royal Society B.