Sentences with phrase «mass turtle nesting»

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Still, they, like crocodiles, turtles, mammals, and birds, survived the asteroid impact, suggesting that the mass extinction at the time may not have been as massive as previously thought.

The fungus was blamed for mass mortalities in the nests of loggerhead sea turtles in Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean.

«At the time of the film's development, no one was able to connect the dots between the phenomenon of the mass nesting and that the nests belonged to the Kemp's ridley sea turtles,» Wibbels said.

The film captured a mass - nesting event known as an arribada, involving tens of thousands of nesting turtles on a single day in 1947.

During a two - year period, Herrera flew his own plane 33 times over the Gulf Coast north of Tampico, Mexico, conducting aerial surveys in search of the mass sea turtle nesting.

The turtles come year around to this protected nesting area, but at certain times they come in masses.