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Thursday, April 16, 2009
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The Great Turtle Race

Illustration: A leatherback sea turtle






















Illustration courtesy Soap Interactive



Starting today, follow 11 leatherback turtles as they swim from Nova Scotia, Canada, across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean in the Great Turtle Race. Eleven different turtles are competing in the race. The first turtle to cross the finish line and enter the Caribbean wins!

Meet the Turtles

Backspacer
Billy
Cali
Estéban
Grembo Jones
Lindblad the Explorer
Nightswimmer
Nueva Esperanza
Seabiscuit
Searcher
Wawa Bear

Visit the interactive Race Map to follow your favorite turtle's progress. Good luck to all of these super swimmers!

Visit the interactive Race Map to follow your favorite turtle's progress. Good luck to all of these super swimmers!

Follow the race updates on the Green Scene blog.

Enter a turtle in the Great Turtle Race game.

4 Comments

that is a pretty big turtle

oh,boy i wanna go to that race!

one of those turtles is the same name as my blog name!

I think the turtels did do hard work so they diserve a long break. I am proud for the winner.

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