Texas – Kemp’s ridley research at national seashore examines effects of 2010 Gulf oil spill on sea turtles – Corpus Christi Caller Times

CORPUS CHRISTI — Fourteen of 108 eggs deposited in May by a female Kemp’s ridley sea turtle did not hatch, providing scientists with research tissue to help examine the long-term impacts of a major oil spill on the world’s most endangered sea turtle.

The 94 hatchlings that survived from that spring clutch were released early Thursday before a watchful crowd at Padre Island National Seashore into a Gulf of Mexico that may or may not be more perilous in the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill…Read Entire Article Here

June 28, 2012

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