Sentences with phrase «turtles nest at»

Sea turtles nest at Half Moon Caye between June and November, then hatch from August through January.

Turtles nest at Ostional all year round, but the arriving periods are more common from July through December where you can have one of the most beautiful opportunities to be in touch with Mother Nature.

Cast your line for sailfish off the coast of Iztapa or watch baby sea turtles nest at Monterrico.

Mark D. Perry, Executive Director Florida Oceanographic Society, speaks about the Society's hands - on activities and how travelers can watch turtles nest at one of the highest beaches in the world.

Not exact matches

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.

I am familiar with all the online retailers you mention, but cautious in my purchases b / c I know it's not nearly as economical than picking up a bag of black turtles at the local store.

Didn't watch the game and to be honest I don't fancy a line up with Giroud upfront, I feel bored usually... I don't like his turtle's movement, I don't like his hold up, I don't like his skill, I don't like his little flick, nor do I like his tongue gesture... Everyone is entitle to his opinion but I don't like those with comments polishing his hold up sh*t... and I'm an Arsenal fan with great passion... Wenger, you failed us big time in the summer not signing a good striker, hey don't say there's no one available because I don't like that too... At this current situation, play wallcot, Kos, sanchez or anyone (bar slow Mert) upfront and I would never complain...

Whether at the beach or right in your local park's pond, it's not hard to find a turtle or terrapin!

I dare anyone not to crack a smile at this little girl in pigtails galloping down the road wearing her turtle - shell backpack.

In academia, where things move at a turtle's pace, it's not uncommon for many months to pass between submitting an application, interviewing, accepting an offer, and finally starting a new position.

Bone fragments from a 210 - million year - old, land - dwelling reptile from New Mexico suggest that the earliest turtles didn't have much of a shell at all.

Goannas have overtaken foxes as the number one predator of the endangered loggerhead turtle at its second largest Queensland nesting beach.

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.

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

Over the duration of the assessment, the scientists recorded that at least 155,762 green turtles were caught; the overall estimated catch (factoring in estimated take during periods when data were not recorded) was 171,556 turtles.

«These declining catch rates align with our survival rate estimates of green turtles exposed to the Nicaragua turtle fishery and population modelling, which suggested the fishery was not sustainable at high take levels reported in the 1990s,» said Dr. Cathi Campbell.

And that's when scientists discovered that the turtles aren't just passive ocean drifters; they actively swim at least some of the time.

Vincent Saba, a research fishery biologist at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC), and his study co-authors used annual nest counts from Florida and a time - series of climate data in turtle - nesting population models.

Evolution, it seems, is one step ahead of the problem: turtle hatchlings don't all respond to a given magnetic field in the same way, suggesting some will arrive at the correct destination even if the field shifts.

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

The findings are «a very important contribution in addressing who turtles are related to, as well as the evolutionary origin of the turtle shell,» says Tyler Lyson, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science who was not involved with the study.

The two distinctive holes on the side of the head behind each eye of Pappochelys provide vital clues to the evolutionary heritage of turtles, says Torsten Scheyer, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland who was not involved in the work.

So close, that one good - size turtle — wider than a dinner plate — couldn't turn around in its tank and the rabbits confined in wire pens could not move at all.

Typically 50 turtle hatchlings emerged at a time from a nest.

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.»

«There was a lot of excitement and a lot of high - fives when we caught it, and we celebrated with a bottle of Cabernet,» said Congdon, a professor emeritus at the University of Georgia who studied the E.S. George turtles every nesting season from 1975 through 2007.

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.

The team looked at 19 years of public data on turtle nesting locations in Florida and compared them with recordings of Earth's magnetic fields.

Many of the most at - risk species (including some turtle, shark and marine mammal species) are not fully protected, even in parks as big as the PRIMNM.

Newly examined video of Kemp's ridley sea turtles, which are found primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, shows that the species» recovery from endangerment has stalled at less than one - tenth of historic nesting levels.

«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.

Here we use basin - scale climate indices and regional surface temperatures to estimate loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) nesting at a variety of spatial and temporal scales.

At an event on Monday for The Turtle Conservancy (no doubt a worthy cause, who doesn't love turtles?)

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«DasVergeben» has a track record of correctly predicting certain events in the AAA gaming sphere, such as the addition of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to the fighting game Injustice 2, so there is at least a slight chance that they aren't full of it.

But there's a group of vigilantes silently serving as the city's protectors, and ambitious news reporter April O'Neil (Megan Fox) is determined to uncover their identities... only to find that the mystery men aren't men at all, but rather oversized mutant turtles skilled in the art of ninjitsu.

THE RED TURTLE (La Tortue rouge) Why Not Productions Grade: B Reviewed by Harvey Karten, Shockya Director: Michaël Dudok de Wit Written by: Michaël Dudok de Wit, Pascale Ferran Cast: Tom Hudson, Emmanuel Garijo Screened at: Sony, NYC, 10/19/16 Opens: November 18, 2016 (Limited), January 19, 2017 (Wide)

The Mock Turtle's Song from Alice In Wonderland, set to an unexpected tune - not a quadrille at all - but then the turtle was a mock turtle, so nothing is as expected!

The Mock Turtle's Song from Alice In Wonderland, set to an unexpected tune - not a quadrille at all - but then the turtle was a mock turtle, so not...

We will often drive for fun and stop often to look at fun things, a historical site, a snapping turtle, or an eagle nesting in the trees.

When Maureen is not helping at the resort, she is at home with her family, a turtle named Casey, Jake a shepherd / pit mix (pictured) and Jasmine a rescued dachshund (pictured).

ROSEBURG - «A 10 - pound snapping turtle recently found at the Yoncalla Water Treatment Plant is a good reminder not to release pet turtles into the wild.»

A 10 - pound snapping turtle recently found at the Yoncalla Water Treatment Plant is a good reminder not to release pet turtles into the wild.»

Exotic companion animal patients seen at Macungie Animal Hospital include small mammals, turtles, lizards, pet birds (not poultry) and nonvenomous snakes.

Your turtle's head may appear asymmetric, misshapen or not the same on both sides; however, it is possible for both ear canals to be affected at the same time so that the head does look the same on both sides.

You mentioned you have a fence, so if you can set up your St. Bernard so that he can't SEE the Gopher Turtles in close proximity or better yet, not see them at all, it will help tamp down his natural predatory drive to chase»em.

However, the turtle was in such poor physical condition that even the thought of surgery wasn't an option at first.

The Maui Ocean Center offers opportunities to dive among its collection of sharks, enjoy the nation's largest collection of coral, marvel at enormous sea turtles and, not to be missed, surround yourself with the extraordinary colors of sea life swimming all around you as you make your way through the acrylic tunnel slicing its way through 750,000 gallons of water.

If you didn't love turtles before, you'll certainly learn to at Turtle Heart!