For the past nine years, Alabama's "Turtle Tsar" has spent his springs and summers patrolling Alabama beaches, looking for signs of a sea turtle nest, marking the nests so beach-goers don't interfere ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GULF SHORES, Ala. (WKRG) — It’s day one of sea turtle nesting season, which means volunteers with Share the Beach are already on ...
A popular family tradition for Alabama beach visitors is to give kids a flashlight and head out for a nighttime catch-and-release hunt for tiny sand crabs. But that innocent search, along with other ...
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — An animal expert says fencing erected by the Alabama Department of Transportation is helping to protect an endangered turtle species. The University of South Alabama herpetologist ...
GULF SHORES, Ala. (WALA) - The 2023 sea turtle nesting season is underway along Alabama beaches. It began May 1st and runs through the end of August. Things are off to a great start with 13 confirmed ...
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (WKRG) — A video posted on social media shows a Loggerhead sea turtle making her way onto an Alabama beach over the weekend in search of a nesting site only to be greeted with ...
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MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Share The Beach-Dauphin Island posts on its Facebook page that there are 2 Kemp’s Ridleys on Alabama beaches so far. And here is a post from Share the Beach-Alabama’s Sea Turtle ...
A family from Mobile found the fossil of a newly discovered genus of the endangered leatherback sea turtle along a riverbank in south Alabama. And thanks to a series of events that unfolded over the ...
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — Seven teens are accused of pouring alcohol on a sea turtle that was attempting to lay eggs in a nest on an Alabama beach, authorities said. The teenagers were arrested by Orange ...
In Alabama, a big discovery was made recently... PETER SCOTT: People call it the intermediate musk turtle or aliflora (ph) musk turtle. KING: ...A turtle. That is Peter Scott. He's a postdoc ...