The STRONG project is a project funded by Italian Ministry of University and Research (Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale, PRIN), which is run in collaboration between the Dept. of Biology of the University of Pisa and the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn of Naples. It aims at investigating how loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) living in the central Mediterranean Sea deal with the increasing sea temperatures they experience, to assess whether they adopt special adaptations to move and forage at high temperatures. For this, a multi-faceted approach will be adopted by performing experiments in controlled conditions and monitoring the behaviour of wild turtles freely moving in their oceanic environment.f Mediterranean Sea loggerhead turtles under different thermal conditions