Satellite-Tagged Green Sea Turtles Stayed Inside the Galápagos Marine Reserve, Surprising Researchers
Nature World News | 02.10.2026 23:00
Green sea turtles are famous for crossing oceans, but a group tracked by satellite in the Galápagos Islands did something researchers did not expect: none of them left the Galápagos Marine Reserve while their tags were transmitting. The peer-reviewed study in Frontiers, published Aug. 27 in Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science and promoted by the publisher in late September, followed nine adult-sized yellow-morph green turtles tagged between 2015 and 2018.
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