> Scientists long thought that tiny turtles drifted passively with ocean currents, literally going with the flow. > "What we've uncovered is that the turtles a

> Scientists long thought that tiny turtles drifted passively with ocean currents, literally going with the flow. > "What we've uncovered is that the turtles are actually swimming," > the trick was developing flexible solar-powered tags that could hang onto shells long enough to send back data. > Eventually the GPS tags slough off because "the outside of a young turtle's shell sheds as they grow very quickly,"