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George Core Park in Port St. Joe was buzzing with excitement Sunday as locals and visitors gathered for the ninth annual Sea ...
Kemp's ridleys —the most endangered sea turtle species in the world—typically nest two to three times per season. That this ...
Leatherback turtles are expected to have another high nesting season, setting a record for the earliest nest recorded in Florida on Feb. 16. While sea turtle population numbers seem to be ...
Volunteers with Escambia County Sea Turtle Patrol found the first nest of the 2025 season, a loggerhead turtle nest, early on March 11 Volunteers and staff check recorded nests daily to monitor ...
On May 26 at about 10:30 p.m., a Sanibel Police Department (SPD) officer came across a large loggerhead sea turtle laying her ...
The first loggerhead sea turtle nest of the season was found on April 6 in Juno Beach, marking the second earliest loggerhead nesting recorded since 1983. Researchers at Loggerhead Marinelife ...
Sea turtles return to the same nesting sites year after year to grow their populations, but rising global temperatures have disrupted this ancient cycle. New research has found that two sea turtle ...
The main sea turtle nesting months run from May to October, but as we can see in this case, nesting can often start before then. Turn off outdoor lights visible from the beach from May to October ...
Alabama Coastal Foundation—a nonprofit that works to protect sea turtles in the state—was alerted to a nest on Fort Morgan, laid by a Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle, according to a Facebook post.
GULF SHORES, Ala. (WKRG) — It’s day one of sea turtle nesting season, which means volunteers with Share the Beach are already on patrol. “We are looking for sea turtle tracks,” Share the ...