green turtle

The team logged the positions of the green turtles’ barnacles over 16 weeks.

Lohmann has studied direction finding in hatchling sea turtles, and can imagine the adult green turtles checking not just the magnetic field, but a variety of location clues including chemical traces and sounds.

Very fortunately for us, it was the time of the year when the green turtle deposits its eggs.

The green turtle's egg is about the size of a walnut, with a white skin like parchment that you can tear, but not break.

"Hold on, you fellows from Green Turtle Key," he said, as they began to move away with the crowd.

The plates were again removed and soup brought on, a clear steaming amber-green turtle, and with it crisp wheat rolls.

It was a turtle of the species Midas, the edible green turtle, so called from the colour both of its shell and fat.