Loggerheads' Journey.(loggerhead turtles swim across Pacific Ocean)(Brief Article)

National Geographic, December, 2000

Turtles feast along a Pacific plankton trail

Young mackerel escort a Pacific loggerhead turtle. off Baja California. Many of these 300-pound sea turtles are born on Yaku Shima in southern Japan, says Wallace J. Nichols, a California Academy of Sciences biologist. Over the next two to six years the turtles cross the Pacific along a line, says Jeffrey Polovina of the National Marine ...