This big creature has a tiny brain, slightly smaller than a grape, yet its simpleminded instincts to come ashore and lay its eggs have enabled it to survive for an eternity of nesting seasons--some 175 million years.
Jack Rudloe
p. 17
Time of the Turtle
Truman Tally Books-E.P. Dutton, 1989
ISBN: 0-525-48487-6