Turtles Galore!

Leatherback Sea Turtle. Image used with permission ©2009 Brian Skerry / National Geographic.
Leatherback Sea Turtle. Image used with permission ©2009 Brian Skerry / National Geographic.

It has been an unofficial Turtle Week here at Deep Sea News with all the excitement surrounding the Great Turtle Race! The winner has been announced and the race is over. Wait? Can’t get enough turtle? You got a fever and the only cure is more turtle? National Geographic has just the thing!

Pick up the May issue of National Geographic Magazine and check out there feature article on Leatherback Sea Turtles with stunning photography by Brian Skerry. Check out the story by Tim Appenzeller online at Ancient Mariner: The biggest, deepest-diving, widest-ranging of all turtles, the leatherback has endured for 100 million years.