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Most sea turtles lay their eggs at night, but a Palm Beach woman was in the right place at the right time, saw a leatherback turtle do it during the day. "Like winning the lottery."
The loggerhead sea turtle appears on the $1000 Colombian peso coin. In the United States, the loggerhead sea turtle is the official state reptile of South Carolina and also the state saltwater reptile of Florida. [118] [119]
Many turtles from the same beaches show up at the same feeding areas. Once reaching sexual maturity in the Atlantic Oceans, the female Loggerhead makes the long trip back to her natal beach to lay her eggs. The Loggerhead sea turtle in the North Atlantic cover more than 9,000 miles round trip to lay eggs on the North American shore.
A rehabilitated sea turtle was released back into the Atlantic Ocean from a Florida beach Wednesday morning. Willow, a subadult loggerhead, was set free in the area behind the Loggerhead ...
A 300-pound loggerhead turtle was freed by Palm Beach's sea turtle monitors Monday after ... for a fully grown loggerhead sea turtle. ... turtles can be reported to the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...
From a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream to the frozen north, swimming around the entire North Atlantic to Africa [2] and then back to the beach where she was born. But her chance of survival is low. Each season, two million loggerhead sea turtles are hatched but just one in ten thousand turtles will return safely to lay their eggs.
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The average size of an adult loggerhead musk turtle is about 3–5 in (7.6–12.7 cm) in straight carapace length. [3] The species is native to the southern United States, being found in rivers, wetlands, and streams in the states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia. [1] [4] [5] The diet of an adult loggerhead musk turtle consists mostly of clams ...