Adelita (turtle)
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Adelita (turtle)
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Adelita is the name of the first sea turtle tracked across an ocean basin, the northern Pacific Ocean. A satellite tag was placed on Adelita, a female loggerhead sea turtle, in 1996 by marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols for a research project. The Adelita tracking project provided the first proof of the trans-Pacific migration of loggerhead sea turtles. Adelita was also the first animal to swim across an ocean while being tracked by a satellite. The 9,000 mile journey of Adelita from Mexico to
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2023-11-20T18:41:56Z
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