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Eggs, hatched or unhatched, and hatchlings that fail to make it into the ocean are nutrient sources for dune vegetation.[citation needed]
A line in the thermoregulation section makes a claim about Leatherback sea turtles being endotherms, using Mcneill et al (2008) as a reference. "However leatherback sea turtles (family Dermochelyidae) are endotherms because they can maintain a body temperature 8 °C (14 °F) warmer than the ambient water.[40]" The article referenced does state that leatherbacks can maintain their body temperature 8 °C above ambient, but does not claim that they are endotherms. In their 1990 paper, "Metabolism of leatherback turtles, gigantothermy, and thermoregulation of dinosaurs", Paladino et al. describe how leatherbacks maintain their internal body temperatures above ambient through a process coined "gigantothermy". This is distinct from endothermy in that leatherbacks are not maintaining body temperature through high metabolic rates, but instead through low metabolic rates with high a high degree of thermal insulation from extreme size and periphery tissue. I have edited the article to reflect this.
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