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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Climbing over the wrack and balancing on narrow, hollowed shoots is a difficult task for new turtles. They trudge on as if they do not mind the hindrance.

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Image title: Baby loggerhead turtles under red light photo
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Female sand beach

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Une magnifique tortue nageant paisiblement dans un des bassins du "Georgia Aquarium" d'Atanta.

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Reptile fin water

LINCOLN, Mass. -- Volunteers and staff from the New England Aquarium, Hanscom Air Force Base and Coast Guard work to load endangered Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles into a Mobile, Ala.-based Coast Guard HC-

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Away vegetation plant

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Guide to the zoological collections of the Raffles Museum, Singapore.

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Leatherbacks crawling to the sea. Tinglares arrastrandose hasta el mar

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Sophia, a rehabilitated turtle at the José A Rivero, Puerto Rico Zoo.
Scientific name: Chelonia mydas
Common name Spanish: Peje Blanco, tortuga verde
Photo Location: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
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Image title: Loggerhead turtle eggs
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Water creature log sit

Reptiles of the world : tortoises and turtles, crocodilians, lizards and snakes of the eastern and western hemispheres / by Raymond L. Ditmars.

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Scrap turtle sculpture

Summer ocean seashore

July 23, 2010 - Gulf Breeze, Florida. Lorna Patrick, Deputy Project Leader of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Panama City, Florida, Ecological Services and Fisheries Resources Office, (right) and

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July 24, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
It's all downhill from here as this juvenile turtle maneuvers over the cage that his doting biological interns placed over his nest to protect them from predators

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Beach sand water

May 21, 2011, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, By: Lilibeth Serrano, USFWS

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Wild natural wildlife

May 21, 2011, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, By: Lilibeth Serrano, USFWS

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Eretmochelys imbricata. Exhibit Museum of Natural History, University of Michigan, 1109 Geddes Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

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Big tortoise animal

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Getting closer!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

Blue water reef

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Taking a break after a long crawl!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Long way to go...

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island
The world is sooooo big!

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Blue coast scenery

Exhibit in the Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology (昆明动物博物馆), Kunming, Yunnan, China.

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Hard to find in the mixed texture of the wet sand.

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
See how faint the trail is that he leaves behind?

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Island sun mediterranean

Scientific name: Chelonia mydasCommon name Spanish: Peje blanco, tortuga verde
Photo: Caroline S. Rogers, USGSStatus: Threatened, Listed on July 28, 1978
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Scientific name: Chelonia mydasCommon name Spanish: Peje blanco, tortuga verde
Photo: Caroline S. Rogers, USGSStatus: Threatened, Listed on July 28, 1978
For more information: ecos.fws.gov/speciesProf

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Aquarium young animal reptile

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Armband, Papua New Guinea, hawksbill sea turtle shell, sennit and natural pigments, Honolulu Academy of Arts

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$Contents include pieces of latex balloon, hard plastic and soft plastic. Photo: Virginia Aquarium Stranding Response Program$

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Comb, Southern Massim, Louisiade Archipelago, 19th-20th century, sea turtle shell - De Young Museum - DSC01161

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Image title: Manatee bearing scars on back from boat propeller
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US Navy 110511-N-VY256-168 Rear Adm. Thomas Carney tours a sea turtle sanctuary

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Are we there yet?

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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Hamburg, Deutsches Zollmuseum

Karettschildkröte (Präparat), beschlagnahmt durch den deutschen Zoll, Inv. Nr. DZM 1.008.324 – P037 – V10

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Adult Dermochelys coriacea, Leatherback Sea Turtle.
In Las Baulas National Marine Park, Costa Rica.

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Scientific name: Eritmochelys imbricata. Spanish: Carey de Concha. Status: Endangered. Listed on June 2, 1970
Photo by Caroline S. Rogers, available through NOAA

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Seaside beach tour

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Lawrence Lawson, a 154-foot Fast Response Cutter based out of Cape May, New Jersey, along with members of the Marine Education, Research & Rehabilitation Institu

Schloss Ambras, Innsbruck, Austria - from the castle's collection of art and curiosities. A comb of tortoiseshell and silver, possibly from Goa; in the inventory of Rudolph II of Prague by 1607-1611.

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Ocean nature animal

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Chutes and ladders on the beach. This baby is doing great!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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JIM WALTERS, NATURALIST FOR EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK STUDIES NESTING HABITS OF LOGGERHEAD TURTLES

The Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is researching the diamondback terrapin turtle, whose habitat is likely to be inundated as the sea rises. Photo by Christina Mohrmann/Grand Bay NERR.

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The Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is researching the diamondback terrapin turtle, whose habitat is likely to be inundated as the sea rises. Photo by Tom Carlisle.

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The Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is researching the diamondback terrapin turtle, whose habitat is likely to be inundated as the sea rises. Photo by Christina Mohrmann/Grand Bay NERR.

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JIM WALTER, NATURALIST WITH EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK COUNTS LOGGERHEAD TURTLE EGGS AND RE-SETS THE NEST

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Climbing all the ripples and touching wet sand for the first time!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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Summer sand parasol

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
One mountain of dead, dry marsh grass down and oh so many more to go!

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Closeup of a hatchling sliding over the ripples of a tide pool. This is his first comparison to the waves that await him.

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Our perspective of the turtle's voyage.

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
It's hatchling season! The babies are emerging and ready to tackle the many challenges that come their way! This little Loggerhead is the first one out of the nest

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This nest was found and marked by volunteers patrolling Carolina Beach in North Carolina. On August 7, a crowd gathered at an adjacent nest that was expected to hatch that night but it didn't. Whil

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
This Loggerhead baby is taking his time to adjust to his new surroundings and strengthen his muscles before his long journey to the middle of the Atlantic. Once in

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Good morning! The hatchlings use the limited space in the "neck" of the lighbulb shaped nest and each others' backs to squeeze and climb out of the chamber.

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
The gentle warmth of the early morning sand comforts a young Loggerhead emerging from the nest, allowing the baby to rest and assess it's environment. At any give

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Scientific name: Dermochelys coriacea
Common name Spanish: Tinglar
Photo by Al Woodson, USFWS volunteer
Location, Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge, US Virgin Islands

More information: ecos.fw

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Piscium, serpentum, insectorum, aliorumque nonnullorum animalum nec non plantarum quarundam imagines :quas Marcus Catesby in posteriore parte splendidi illius operis quo Carolinae Floridae et Bahamens

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
See how well Loggerheads camouflage with the wrack line on the beach? This mama just finished laying her nest and is now covering it from predators such as wild h

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
Even though the initial waves have washed the carapace clean, this female loggerhead is on her way out into the Atlantic Ocean to mate again. She weighs close to

July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
It's a long haul, but every step is invaluable to the hatchling's survival. The hatchlings imprint the beach as they walk using the magnetic field to return 35 yea

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Resting in the shade before stretching his flippers, this baby needs to be alert to bypass all of the obstacles that await him on his journey to adulthood.

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US Navy 090513-N-0535P-032 KEKAHA, Hawaii (May 13, 2009) - Capt. Aaron Cudnohufsky, left, commanding officer of the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, along with other volunteers removes an injured green sea turtle

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
The spikes on the turtle's carapace or shell will eventually smooth out as the scutes, little "patches", grow over time.

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Even though most nests hatch at night to avoid mammalian predators, these little guys seem to camouflage well enough in the wrack line. Nevertheless, this place is

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
She's crawled. She's dug. She's laid. She's covered. Now she returns to the warm Atlantic waters to breed again so she can lay more nests. A Loggerhead typically

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
Contemplating his next move. He is so tiny compared to the little holes in the sand and the fine lines left by the last waves.

Credit: USFWS/Becky Skiba

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
The mother Loggerhead cries salt water tears as she lays her eggs in the white sands on Blackbeard Island. She will never again return to check on her eggs, but m

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island
Wind them up and watch them go! Their "wind up" comes from their own yolks they absorb to power them with enough energy for the next 48 hours. They will need every las

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July 23, 2010 - Gulf Breeze, Florida. Lorna Patrick (Deputy Project Leader of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Panama City, Florida, Ecological Services and Fisheries Resources Office), center and

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July 24, 2012- Blackbeard Island, GA
This hatchling has already made it farther in life than a lot of his siblings and peers. His egg developed successfully without mutations. He has overcome the thre

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July 17, 2012 - Blackbeard Island, GA
This dawn nester on Blackbeard Island lays her eggs in the sand after "body pitting" and digging an inverted light bulb shaped nest. "Body pitting" is when the fe

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Loggerhead sea turtle making its way to the ocean

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Loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings making their way to the ocean

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Loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings make their way to the ocean

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Loggerhead sea turtle tracks leading to and from the first nest of the 2021 sea turtle nesting season

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One green sea turtle hatchling south of Ramp 38

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Scientific name: Dermochelys coriacea
Common name Spanish: Tinglar
Photo by Claudia Lombard, USFWS
Location, Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge, US Virgin Islands

More information: ecos.fws.gov

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Loggerhead sea turtle nest site.

Sea turtle depression and hatchling tracks

Green sea turtle Hatchling on Ocracoke Island 10-19-2021

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Loggerhead sea turtle nest with hatchling tracks left after the nest boiled

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