sea turtles

This could be the biggest sea turtle swarm ever filmed

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Did you know that every month, female sea turtles visit Costa Rica’s Ostional National Wildlife Refuge to lay their eggs on the beach? It’s an amazing sight to see! Marine biologist Vanessa Bézy has been studying this phenomenon, known as a mass arrival or “arribada” in Spanish, for years. She even captured the turtles aggregating … Read more

Did You Ever Wonder What Sea Turtles Do During Hurricanes?

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Photo of Loggerhead Sea Turtle

Realizing they were sitting on a mountain of data, NOAA Fisheries researchers sifted through location and dive records of satellite-tracked sea turtles, as well as weather buoy data along a stretch of the Mid-Atlantic that had been gathered as a hurricane tracked its way through the sea turtles’ seasonal territory. As Leah Crowe, a biologist … Read more