Two entangled Dermochelys coriacea rescued at Cape cod bay
Two leatherback sea turtles have been disentangled yesterday in Cape Cod Bay in Massachusets by the Marine Animal Entanglement Response team (MAER) at the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS). Click the link to read more…
SPCA rescue read-eared sliders and smuggler foiled again, see the Crime & Punishment section. Sea turtle tracking and beach clean ups in the Conservation section.
Turtle News From Around the World
Conservation
Volunteers clean up Lara beach to help protect turtles
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Eretmochelys imbricatal turtles need regional protection
Blog
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Caswell Beach Turtle Watch: Nest #35 hatched
Caswell Beach Turtle Watch: Nest #39 hatched
Crime & Punishment
Man’s second bid to smuggle tortoises foiled
Nearly 250 Trachemys scripta elegans saved at Tseun Wan beach
Ecology
Record number of laying Chelonia mydas counted on Lanyu, Taiwan
Miscellany
State of the art: Artist develops medallions for downtown beautification project
Did You Know…
Desmatochelys padillai is an extinct species of sea turtle described in 2015 and belongs to the family Protostegidae. Estimated to be more than 120 millions years old, it became the oldest known sea turtle, superseding a record earlier held by Santanachelys gaffneyi. The fossil, including bones and shells, was discovered from Villa de Leyva in Colombia in 2007. The specimen is larger than an average-sized humans, measuring 2 m in length, and exhibits the key features of modern sea turtles.
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Photo from CCS image taken under NMFS permit #50 CFR 222-310.
