By Walt Hickey Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Gulf Marine ecologists at Florida State University scraped samples off the backs of migrating sea turtles to understand just what kind of organisms were clinging to life on their shells. It’s pretty well known that loggerhead turtles are teeming with life that tags along, animals larger than bacteria but still microscopic. The researchers anticipated finding thousands of organisms on the back of each turtle but were shocked with the sheer amount and biodiversity of the life: they found
When I was a kid, I loved Asterix! Then again, I did grow up north of the 49th parallel........