Voyage of the turtle : in pursuit of the Earth's last dinosaur / Carl Safina.

Voyage of the turtle : in pursuit of the Earth's last dinosaur / Carl Safina.

First edition.

0805078916
9780805078916

New York : Holt, 2006.

English

xvi, 383 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

QL666.C546 S24 2006

597.92/89

The story of an ancient sea turtle and what its survival says about our future. The decline of sea turtles in Pacific waters and their surprising recovery in the Atlantic illuminate what can go both wrong and right from human interventions, and teach us lessons that can be applied to restore health to the world's oceans. The only surviving species of its suborder, the leatherback is an evolutionary marvel: a "reptile" whose ancestry can be traced back 125 million years, that behaves like a warm-blooded dinosaur, an ocean animal able to withstand colder water than most fishes and dive deeper than any whale. As naturalist Safina makes clear, the fate of the leatherback is in our hands. As scientists apply lessons learned in the Atlantic and Caribbean to other endangered seas, Safina follows leatherback migrations, including a journey from Monterey, California, to nesting grounds on the most remote beaches of Papua New Guinea.--From publisher description.

"A John Macrae book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [352]-367) and index.

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