Turtle locomotion: field and laboratory study of the locomotion of hatchling Loggerhead sea turtles moving on granular media (beach sand on Jekyll Island, GA, USA).

Journal paper: Mazouchova, Gravish, Savu & Goldman, Biology Letters, 2010 (PDF) (PDF of SOM) (Movie 1) (Movie 2)

Georgia Tech media release here

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Thanks to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center for field support. This work was funded by the The Burroughs Wellcome Fund.