When green turtles toddle out to the ocean after hatching from eggs at sandy beaches they more or less disappear from view and aren’t seen again for several years until they show up as juveniles at coastal foraging areas.
Researchers have long puzzled over what happens to the turtles during these “lost years,” as they were dubbed decades ago. Now a new study published in theProceedings of the Royal Society B outlines where they likely would be based on ocean currents, and correlated the results with a genetic model.
Read the full, original story here: Researchers use circulation models, genetics to track ‘lost years’ of turtles