The world’s smallest and most endangered sea turtles have hatched in Louisiana for the first known time in more than 75 years, officials said Wednesday. 🐢 “There was some high-fiving going on,” one scientist said after hatchling tracks were found.
NEW ORLEANS — The world’s smallest and most endangered sea turtles have hatched in Louisiana’s wilds for the first known time in more than 75 years, officials said Wednesday.
The first tracks were found by a crew surveying birds “before the sea turtle nesting season really kicked off,” said Matthew Weigel, coastal resources scientist manager for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.Megalodons, ancient sharks larger than a school bus, once roamed the seas and feasted on huge meals, study says
Weigel said aerial surveys found 52 sets of tracks that experts identified as Kemp's ridley, though some were “false crawls” where no nest was made. Loggerhead nests found in 2015 on Grand Isle — roughly 70 miles southwest of the Chandeleurs — were the first confirmed sea turtle nests in Louisiana in more than 30 years, according to the statement.
That location in Pass Christian Harbor is roughly 40 miles northwest of the Chandeleurs, the easternmost part of Louisiana. The chain has been eaten away by erosion, tropical storms including Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the BP oil spill in 2010. Most Kemp’s ridley nests are along the western Gulf of Mexico, 95% of them in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico, according to NOAA. “Occasional nesting has been documented in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama,” according to its website about the species.
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