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Leatherback Turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
The leatherback is the only sea turtle that lacks a hard, bony shell.
The front flippers lack claws and scales and are proportionally longer than in other sea turtles; back flippers are paddle-shaped.
Females nest several times during a nesting season, typically at 8-12 day intervals.
Leatherbacks lack the crushing chewing plates characteristic of sea turtles that feed on hard-bodied prey (Pritchard 1971).
In fact, leatherbacks are the most migratory and wide ranging of sea turtle species.
Atlantic Canada supports one of the largest seasonal foraging populations of leatherbacks in the Atlantic.
Leatherbacks tagged with satellite transmitters at sea off Nova Scotia were tracked to waters adjacent to nesting beaches along the northeast coast of South American, the Antilles, Panama and Costa Rica (James et al., 2005)..
The distribution and developmental habitats of juvenile leatherbacks are poorly understood.
In an analysis of available sightings (Eckert 2002), researchers found that leatherback turtles smaller than 100 cm carapace length were only sighted in waters 26°C or warmer, while adults were found in waters as cold as 0 to 15°C off Newfoundland (Goff and Lean 1988)..


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About The Salton Sea
The Allure of the Sea: Abundance of Life! .
One of the attractions of the Sea is the abundance of life, manifested in the hundreds of species of birds that reside in, or visit, this important wetland habitat, and the fish that inhabit the waters.
That is why some scientists have called the Salton Sea "California's crown jewel of avian biodiversity" and perhaps was the most productive fishery in the world.
As California's wetlands decline, the importance of the Sea as a habitat for inland wetland species increases.
The Sea's habitats support up to 40 percent of the entire US population of the threatened Yuma clapper rail, 80 to 90 percent of the American white pelican, and 90 percent of the eared grebe.
Besides the opportunity for bird watching and for fishing, the Salton Sea and its immediate vicinity offer recreational opportunities including boating, camping, off-roading, hiking, hunting, use of personal watercraft and photography.
One of the attractions, the Salton Sea State Recreation Area, has 1, 400 campsites in five campgrounds, hundreds of picnic sites, trails, playgrounds, boat ramps and a visitors' center.
The Salton Sea, located in the southeastern corner of California, is actually a lake which occupies a desert basin known as the Salton Sink.

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National Trust | Coastal habitats | Islands and sea loughs
Islands form for many reasons: sea levels dropping, volcanic activity under the sea bed pushing new rock to the surface, even tilting and folding of sedimentary rocks laid down many millions of years ago..
Brownsea Island is made up of softer sands, clays and pebbles washed out from the last ice sheet.
Where landscapes have been ‘drowned’, probably from rising sea levels, inland seas called sea loughs can form..
Strangford Lough is the UK's largest sea inlet with over 120 islands dotted across it.

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@Sea - OPERATION DEEP SCOPE - Exploring Gulf of Mexico Deep-Sea Habitats
OPERATION DEEP SCOPE Exploring Gulf of Mexico Deep-Sea Habitats MISSION PREVIEW Operation Deep Scope is a mission to study the fantastic life forms of four alien landscapes in the Gulf of Mexico up to 3, 000 feet deep.
A Harbor Branch-led international team of scientists will be using the most advanced array of imaging tools ever deployed in the deep sea with the goal of revealing never before seen animals, behaviors, and phenomena.
Deep Scope will take place aboard Harbor Branch's Seward Johnson II research vessel and the Johnson-Sea-Link I (JSLI) submersible.
Besides Harbor Branch scientists, the expedition will include researchers from Duke University; the University of Queensland, Australia; the Whitney Lab of the University of Florida; the University of Ulm, Germany; and Physical Science, Inc., in Andover, Mass.
The worms are plentiful around the seeps and attract a number of predators such as fish and deep-sea sharks.
There, salt deposits in the seafloor dissolve to create water so dense that it forms a shallow lake 2, 100 feet below the ocean's surface.
The team will study the chemical-based bioluminescent light most deep-sea animals produce, as well as the fluorescent light also given off by many marine animals.

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