JUNO BEACH — This sea-turtle nesting season was anything but ordinary, with turtles laying a record 25,025 nests on a 9.5-mile stretch of beach in Juno Beach, Jupiter and Tequesta from March to ...
“It’s definitely always very gratifying to see these animals go back into their ocean home,” said Dr. Heather Barron with the ...
Dilly Dally, a loggerhead turtle who survived a run-in with a predator that ultimately cost her a front flipper, has been released from a Florida animal hospital back into the Atlantic Ocean. "No ...
JUNO BEACH, Florida (WPBF) — One of Loggerhead Marinelife Center’s most popular patients finally made it back home into the ocean. Thousands gathered Wednesday morning in the heat on Juno Beach to ...
COMPETITION. WELL, SO FAR THIS YEAR, LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER HAS REHABILITATED AND RELEASED 97 JUVENILES TO ADULT SEA TURTLES, AND MORE THAN A THOUSAND AND 183 HATCHLINGS AND WASH BACKS. FIRST ...
Florida's beaches—particularly those in Palm Beach County—are among the world's most vital nesting grounds for loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), accounting for 90% of all loggerhead nests in ...