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Second Oldest Turtle Of the World Is Gone… Sad news at Giza Zoo, the biggest Zoo in the Middle East and Africa. A 270-year old turtle died on Tuesday. It was considered the second oldest turtle of the world. It was brought into the zoo in 1936. In 2013, this turtle was announced dead but the rumour was denied by the Director General of the […]

Sea Turtle Conservation Group Will Sue Fort Lauderdale If Necessary In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, darkness around the beaches is a problem for businesses who say they’re losing out on potential customers because of safety concerns. Traffic is also affected in some parts. The city’s Conference Committee Agenda took up surveys to draw these conclusions. However, darkness is a very good thing for freshly hatched sea

The time to protect Blanding’s Turtle habitat is now Blanding’s Turtle is a threatened species in Indiana, Illinois, Ontario, Quebec, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York, Ohio and Michigan. The need to protect a critical habitat – that is a habitat used for reproduction, feeding and hibernation – is a key step to save this endangered species. GPS trackers have been used to better understand the species’

First Underwater GPS Monitoring of Sea Turtles 30 baby Natator depressus will be equipped with GPS devices in order to learn more about this species. Indeed, this species is the least known in terms of behaviour and habitat of all the sea turtles species. 30 baby turtles got collected just after birth and have been raised by hand for 2 months. They need to be

Sea Turtle Receives a 3-D orthopaedic chin made of titanium Nine months ago, a Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle) was hit by the propeller of a boat, rupturing the turtle’s right side of the chin in the Turkish city of Bodrum (map of Turkey). The animal, named “AKUT 3,” has been suffering from indigestion and has been fed only small fish by hand for nine

Green sea turtle population discovered in a river in Southern California Between 30 and 100 turtles were discovered in the 3-mile stretch of the San Gabriel River in Long Beach. The river is a mix of salt and fresh water, and the area is equipped with two power plants on each side of the river that suck in cold ocean water to cool their generating

Jurassic European Sea Turtles Suffered From Changing Sea Levels Remains of the supposed oldest sea turtle species was found in the Baetic Cordillera in Jaén 6 years ago. It is still not clear what group the primitive species Hispaniachelys prebetica, considered the oldest southern Europe species, belongs to. A researcher in the evolutionary biology group of the UNED, Adan Pérez-Garcia, studied and analyzed the fossil’s