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A record year for sea turtles? Early nesting has Loggerhead Marinelife Center thinking big

Watch your step on the beaches near Jupiter: Loggerhead Marinelife Center is predicting that 2025 will be a top-three year for sea turtle nestings. So far this season, the nonprofit conservation ...
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Oldest Nesting Loggerhead On Record Returns To Jekyll Island To Lay Her Eggs

Jekyll Island in Georgia is a safe haven and nesting site for loggerhead sea turtles. Each year, the giant sea turtles waddle up into the sand dunes where they were born to dig new nests and bury ...
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Loggerhead Turtles Prefer Gentle Slopes and Nearby Dune Stairs on Boca Raton Beach, FAU Study Finds

BOCA RATON, FL— New research on Florida's vital nesting beaches suggests that the slope of the sand and the placement of man-made structures may be more important to a loggerhead sea turtle's nesting ...
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Once gravely injured, Mama Pritchard returns again and again to lay eggs on a Lowcountry beach

BEAUFORT — Some 17 years after she suffered grievous wounds from a pair of boat strikes, a loggerhead turtle known as Mama Pritchard is still making little sea turtles. Genetic testing has confirmed ...
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Earliest nest recorded by Loggerhead Marinelife Center this season

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 ...

Florida sea turtle nesting began early as 4 leatherbacks laid eggs

Florida sea turtle nesting season generally starts about March 1 and ends about Nov. 15, but at least four leatherbacks are off to an early start laying eggs along the Treasure Coast. They laid them ...