Sea Turtle Photography
The underbite is back!
One of the most unique mother (and grandmother?) loggerhead is back again in Zakynthos this summer! This is the only recorded turtle in Zakynthos and probably in the Mediterranean (in the world?) that has a protruding lower jaw (underbite). She is regular visitor of the island, seen underwater in 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2015 and 2017!
She is quite famous since she has made appearances in scientific papers as well as in documentaries:
See figure 1 in:
www.swansea.ac.uk/bs/turtle/reprints/Schofield_etal_JEMBE...
and from 4:43 in:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U6hSSpQXIc
She was also seen nesting by the volunteers of ARCHELON Zakynthos in 2015 in Laganas beach, see that poster here:
www.facebook.com/archelonzakynthos/photos/a.4230750978780...
She is from now named Katina or kyra Katina, a typical greek grandmother name :D
The underbite is back!
One of the most unique mother (and grandmother?) loggerhead is back again in Zakynthos this summer! This is the only recorded turtle in Zakynthos and probably in the Mediterranean (in the world?) that has a protruding lower jaw (underbite). She is regular visitor of the island, seen underwater in 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2015 and 2017!
She is quite famous since she has made appearances in scientific papers as well as in documentaries:
See figure 1 in:
www.swansea.ac.uk/bs/turtle/reprints/Schofield_etal_JEMBE...
and from 4:43 in:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U6hSSpQXIc
She was also seen nesting by the volunteers of ARCHELON Zakynthos in 2015 in Laganas beach, see that poster here:
www.facebook.com/archelonzakynthos/photos/a.4230750978780...
She is from now named Katina or kyra Katina, a typical greek grandmother name :D