News

Volunteers found the earliest discovered nest in Perdido Key on Mother's Day, now they're working to prepare the community ...
According to the Department of Natural Resouces (DNR) daily nest monitoring on all Georgia beaches starts in mid-May. This year though, Will Hicks and Bailey Yarborough of the Jekyll Island Authority ...
Fox Weather Atlantic hurricane season overlaps with sea turtle nesting, hatching season Posted: May 4, 2025 | Last updated: May 4, 2025 Sarah Hirsch, Director of Research at the Loggerhead ...
Nests typically contain between 80 and 150 sea turtle eggs from one of four different sea turtle species at Cape Lookout: ...
Sea turtle clutches average 120 eggs and hatch after approximately 60 days, SCDNR says. Nesting females may remain in South Carolina waters and continue to nest every two weeks, laying up to six nests ...
The move also dramatically boosts their chances of survival, with hatching ... turtle and her eggs. McDaniel reminded residents it's a federal offense to touch or disturb sea turtles.
Recently, an officer was patrolling Surfside Beach when he encountered a rare Kemp's ridley sea turtle ( chron.com ). This ...
It’s nesting season for diamondback terrapin turtles, and the road to Tybee Island is full of pregnant females making their ...
Sea Turtle Patrol Hilton Head An expectant mother set her flippers on a Hilton Head beach last night. No one saw her, but she laid a crop of small, white eggs in the sand before slipping back into ...
A loggerhead turtle whose left fin was destroyed in a shark attack is rehabbing at Zoo Miami’s new Sea Turtle Hospital, where veterinarians were able to save more than 100 of her eggs after ...
Sea turtle eggs take around 60 days to incubate after they’re laid, and when the young turtles hatch they try to make their way into the Gulf under the cover of darkness. Lost sea turtle nests ...