...Ivana J. Lezcano; Jeanette Wyneken; Marianne E. Porter ABSTRACT The shells of turtles serve as protection, yet shell shape and natural history widely vary among turtles. Here, we identify the mechanical behavior that provides marine turtles, species characterized with fusiform shells...

....   17 , 140 - 153 . 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02192.x Hawkes , L. A. , Broderick , A. C. , Godfrey , M. H. and Godley , B. J. (2009). Climate change and marine turtles . End. Species Res.   7 , 137 - 154 . 10.3354/esr00198 Hewavisenthi , S. and Parmenter , C...

...S. Hochscheid; F. Bentivegna; A. Hamza; G. C. Hays SUMMARY Marine turtles spend more than 90% of their life underwater and have been termed surfacers as opposed to divers. Nonetheless turtles have been reported occasionally to float motionless at the surface but the reasons for this behaviour...

...T. Todd Jones; Mervin D. Hastings; Brian L. Bostrom; Russel D. Andrews; David R. Jones SUMMARY Marine turtles often have extremely high water turnover accompanied by a low field metabolic rate (FMR), a combination that can contraindicate the use of doubly labelled water (DLW). Therefore, we...