Sentences with phrase «sea turtles at»

It is that last threat, fishing nets, that is putting sea turtles at significant risk and is the subject of a new documentary produced by a Pace University students.

You can find sea turtles at several places including Lady Elliot Island and Green Island.

There are so many great activities on the island - scuba diving, horseback rides along the beach, late night forays to see the bioluminescent bay, myriad places to snorkel from the beach including an early morning swim with sea turtles at Spotts Beach.

Swimming with sea turtles at Akumal Bay Mexico is one of the best, family - friendly and, most importantly, cheap experiences to be had along the Riviera Maya.

Dive into the world of sea turtles at Turtle Reef, an attraction featuring a 300,000 - gallon aquarium with up to 60 threatened sea turtles.

Snorkel with the green sea turtles at Turtle Point.

From the unforgettable stretches of white sand at Kalanggaman Island, to swimming with sea turtles at Apo Island, the Philippines has something for the adventure traveler, the relaxing beach goer, the cultural enthusiast or all three.

Our guests, really the opportunity to spend time with the sea turtles at Turtle Town.

Expect to see a variety of tropical fish and coral at Molokini Crater and interesting underwater lava formations with sea turtles at our second site.

Join us for an hour and a half of snorkeling with the Green Sea Turtles at Turtle Town or Turtle Reef, followed by a whale watching (sightings guaranteed) and dolphin quest.

This is 6 hours of adventure, snorkeling at Molokini Crater and visiting the Green Sea Turtles at Turtle Town.

Snorkeling with the Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles at Turtle Town definitely qualifies as one of the wonders and unique opportunities Maui has to offer.

Watch and help sea turtles at their nesting grounds in Tortugero National Park or surf amazing waves at Playa Bonita.

Snorkel with green sea turtles at the Cook Island Marine Reserve, situated just 20 minutes from the shore or join a fishing tour and see if you can land a big one.

If you're visiting the Yucatan region of Mexico you won't want to miss the chance to go swimming with endangered green sea turtles at Akumal beach.

Great snorkeling in a small protected bay with sea turtles at your door step!

For a complete island getaway, head to Gili Meno where you can swim with sea turtles at Turtle Point.

Underwater enthusiasts get to snorkel and scuba dive with tropical fish and Hawaiian sea turtles at Molokini Crater in crystal - clear waters near the beach town of Kihei.

After brainstorming ~ the student and I decided to send the work to an expert on sea turtles at the local aquarium.

Not exact matches

After a night's sleep at the Seaventures Dive Resort, tourists can scuba and roam with the tropical fish and sea turtles.

New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides valuable insight into the navigation and nesting behaviors of loggerhead sea turtles that could inform future conservation efforts.

Sea turtles often hang out at the beach at Paradise Cove.

Worldwide, at least 143 marine species are known to have become entangled in marine debris (including almost all of the world's species of sea turtles) and at least 177 marine species (including 95 % of all the world's sea birds) have eaten plastic litter.

There was a small reef at the parking lot end of the beach were we spotted many fish and several giant green sea turtles.

While you're on your way up to North Shore, take it upon yourself to pop off at Turtle Beach or many of Oahu's beaches where you and your family can swim amongst the sea turtles.

Green sea turtle Nickel has a safe home at Shedd, but some of her wild relatives are at risk because they can be accidentally caught, and drowned, in fishing gear targeting shrimp or other commercial seafood species.

Wellfleet Bay conducts conservation science research and protects endangered, threatened, and at risk wildlife, including sea turtles, diamondback terrapins, coastal waterbirds, and Atlantic horseshoe crabs throughout the Outer Cape, and protects rare and iconic Cape Cod habitats on its 1,100 acre Sanctuary.

For their study, the researchers looked at three sets of fossils (now housed in museums in Denmark, England, and Texas) of widely disparate creatures from different eras: a leatherback turtle that lived about 55 million years ago, a large predator called a mosasaur that lived about 86 million years ago, and an ichthyosaur that swam the seas between 190 million and 196 million years ago.

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In other studies where green sea turtles and tiger shark home range overlap have been analyzed, scientists have observed turtles that avoid isolating themselves at the water surface when they are vulnerable to ambush from tiger sharks.

We are committed to working with the Government and communities to protect Madagascar's natural resources but it's a huge challenge when a single sea turtle can be sold at the same price as a fisherman's monthly income.»

The enormous, solitary leatherback sea turtle spends most of its long life at sea.

Loggerhead sea turtles, which feed thousands of miles from their hatching grounds, seem to return to breed with their genetic relatives at sites very close to their births.

Construction is, however, expected to take as long as three years, creating the potential to displace at least three sea turtle nesting seasons.

Katherine Mansfield, a marine scientist and turtle biologist at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, and colleagues put 19 solar - powered satellite tags on young (less than a year old), lab - reared loggerhead sea turtles.

Fishermen in Sicily volunteer to take part in the rescue of turtles in difficulty at sea and on beaches, and are trained to transfer them to rescue centres.

After spending many hours digging and laying eggs at Huon Island, a female green turtle makes it back to the sea as the sun rises.

Not all dead turtles strand on beaches, especially young animals, and some decay at sea.

Dr Kristian Metcalfe, lead author from the Centre for Ecology and Conservation (CEC) at the University of Exeter who undertook the coastal survey with colleagues, said: «Conservation efforts for sea turtles can be hampered by their migratory life cycles, which carry them across jurisdictional boundaries and international waters.

But when the first turtles moved from the land to the sea more than a hundred million years ago, they didn't have this ability, says Ren Hirayama, a paleontologist at Teikyo Heisei University in Chiba, Japan.

Co-author Dr Matthew Witt from the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) at the University of Exeter added: «These findings further emphasize the regional and global importance of Gabon's nesting sea turtle populations and places the country in a better position to support and implement measures to protect them.»

«Oldest fossil sea turtle discovered: Huge fossilized turtle is at least 120 million years old.»

«We described a fossil sea turtle from Colombia that is about 25 million years older,» said Dr. Edwin Cadena, a scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation at the Senckenberg Research Institute.

Scientists at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt have described the world's oldest fossil sea turtle known to date.

Specifically, they looked at two long - term warming and cooling cycles whose effect on sea turtles hadn't been investigated, one in the Pacific where Japanese turtles spend their formative years, and another in the Atlantic, where young Floridian turtles live.

Rebecca Lewison, an ecologist at San Diego State University who studies sea turtles, says the findings are important and likely apply to other sea turtle species.

«The most vulnerable part of a sea turtle's life is the first few years,» says Frank Paladino, a marine biologist at Indiana - Purdue University in Fort Wayne.

As a result, «these turtles, in addition to other groups of sea reptiles, became extinct at that time,» Pérez - García confirms.

Kenneth Lohmann, a neurobiologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, says the findings could lead to advances in his own work on the magnetosensitivity of sea turtles, which travel long distances to their home beaches to lay eggs.

The turtles are rarely observed during the next two to ten years or so, but prior studies suggest that at least some reside among mats of seaweed, such as Sargassum, that provide shelter and habitat in the open sea.