The shells of the hawksbill sea turtle have been ... and creates gaps in the reef where young corals can attach and grow. “Hawksbills are like the gardeners of coral reefs,” says Urteaga.

Coevolution has brought the coral reef and its parrotfish ... a foraging green turtle, hawksbill, or loggerhead. Here and there the sea grass prairie is crossed by what appears to be a game ...

Cardinalfish zip by a hawksbill turtle as it rests among feathery ... Slender cardinalfish gleam against a gor- gonian, or sea fan, on a northerly reef. The soft coral’s vivid color likely ...

The Hawksbill Project received a $5,000 donation to support the third year of their population assessment on St. John of the critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle. “Year three is a really ...

A green sea turtle is showing ... signs of recovery and the turtle could be a really good candidate for rehabilitation,” Sam Eliades, Coral World Ocean and Reef Initiative associate director ...

Hawksbill turtle hatchlings emerging from their nests need to head for the sea as soon as possible. They do this by heading for the brightest horizon. Traditionally this was the light of the moon ...

On a cay in the Great Barrier Reef, a critically endangered sea creature was rescued ... As they got closer, rangers saw that it was a female hawksbill turtle, a critically endangered species ...

Hawksbill sea ... reef prevents the glassy invertebrates from overpopulating and creates gaps in the reef where young corals can attach and grow. “Hawksbills are like the gardeners of coral ...