Here are related sites if you are interested in knowing more about sea turtles or seeing them in action.
1. Youtube.com This links provides a great illustration of the green sea turtle in action: "Flight of the Turtle."20 Oct 2007. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yXkn9RAmXk Video courtesy of: philiptdotcom 2.Wikipedia.org. This link provides more detailed information on the evolution and history of other species of sea turtles: "Turtle." 19 oct 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle 3. EarthTrust.org This links provides good background information on the green sea turtle: http://www.earthtrust.org/wlcurric/turtles.html 4. GoogleScholar.com This link leads to specific articles addressing oxygen transport, green sea turtle hemoglobin, green sea turtle blood, and cardiovascular impact: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=chelonia+mydas+blood http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=chelonia+mydas+hemoglobin http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=chelonia+mydas+buoyancy+control This link leads to a journal article that provieds detailed infromation on blood gases in sea turtles: |
This project was created as a part of a class project in the Animal Physiology class in the Department of Biology 
at Davidson College
E-mail questions to: snreid@davidson.edu
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