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With one “race day” remaining, Brevard County’s Tour de Turtles competitors — two unusually energetic female loggerhead sea turtles — will finish the migratory marathon in second and third place from a field of 14 reptiles. And on the scientific...
The morning was dusky, sunrise nearly an hour off, when Frank Burchall pulled out of his driveway on Bermuda’s east end, his granddaughter Mimi beside him, and headed for work in the languid seaside port of St. George’s. Burchall’s route took him along Barry Road, a...
This past Summer, I had the amazing opportunity to travel to Maria La Gorda, Cuba, the far most western tip of Cuba as part of the Sea Turtle Conservancy Sea Turtle Expedition. While the core part of our trip was to tag sea turtles to be entered in the upcoming Tour...
Leonora and Turpac, the Space Coast’s satellite transmitter-equipped Tour de Turtles competitors, have combined to swim 11 miles along the barrier island since their Sunday morning releases from the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge. Researchers with the Sea...
Two loggerhead sea turtles, Leonora and Turpac, were released into the ocean from the Barrier Island Center in Melbourne Beach Sunday morning. Over the next three months, the turtles will “race” against other turtles that have already been released in Florida and...