Florida’s beaches – particularly those in Palm Beach County – are among the world’s most vital nesting grounds for loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), accounting for 90% of all loggerhead nests ...
HIGHS IN THE LOW 80S. WELL, THIS MORNING THE LOGGERHEAD MARINE LIFE CENTER DOCUMENTED THE EARLIEST SEA TURTLE NESTS EVER RECORDED. THE LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER MONITORS AN EIGHT AND A HALF MILE ...
March is the official start of nesting season for sea turtles in the Sunshine State and, as a protected species, there are a ...
A Loggerhead Sea Turtle hatchling makes its way to the Atlantis Ocean in this undated photo, in Juno Beach, Fla. (Jeff Beige/Loggerhead Marine Life Center via AP) INDIAN ROCKS BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Just ...
As Hurricane Erin pelted North Carolina’s barrier islands with strong winds and waves this week, it destroyed many nests of threatened sea turtles, burying the eggs deep in sand or washing them out to ...
Perhaps it has never happened, or at least no one remembers, such an event on Solanas beach. Last night, a loggerhead turtle hatched. Instead of approaching the sea, it headed toward a nearby house ...
A remarkable encounter with nature unfolded at iSimangaliso Wetland Park’s Bhanga Nek area, near Kosi Bay in KZN, where loggerhead turtles were seen laying eggs as part of a carefully managed ...
It’s been a good year for loggerhead sea turtles, with record numbers of nests being reported in some places along the South Carolina and Florida coasts midway through the nesting season Preliminary ...