May 18, 2007
Race for Survival
This just in: There is a spectator sport even slower than golf. Is it croquet? Cricket? Professional Scrabble? Nope: turtle racing.
The first annual Great Turtle Race — dreamed up by a Stanford University doctoral candidate, George Schillinger — kicked off this year and was the continent's most highly anticipated athletic event involving ocean reptiles. Enthusiasts around the world tracked a group of female leatherback sea turtles, fitted with GPS devices, as they
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