Endangered leatherback turtle tracks, eggs found on Gulf Coast


	Endangered leatherback turtle tracks, eggs found on Gulf Coast

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6-13-2008 7:12 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7449ca32-f6fe-4e31-b500-50e3a7a44270/76BB3804-346C-4448-83CD-AAD50359F6A3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/06/13/0613leatherback.html" href="http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/06/13/0613leatherback.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.statesman.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/06/13/0613leatherback.html"><P>Tracks and eggs belonging to one of the world's largest turtles, the endangered leatherback, have been spotted at Padre Island National Seashore for the first time since the 1930s.
	  	 </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/06/13/0613leatherback.html"><P>National Park Service staffers ran across the broad tracks — more than 61/2 feet wide — while patrolling June 6 for the Kemp's ridley sea turtle, the smallest of five species of sea turtles that are found in the Gulf of Mexico.
	  	 </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/06/13/0613leatherback.html"><P>Instead, they found leatherback tracks.
	  	 </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/06/13/0613leatherback.html"><P>Atlantic leatherback turtles, which may number in the hundreds of thousands, have been "coming back like gangbusters" because of efforts to protect their nesting beaches, said Larry Crowder, a marine biologist at Duke University who specializes in sea turtle population dynamics.
	  	 </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/06/13/0613leatherback.html"><P>The two buried eggs were taken back to the National Seashore's sea turtle lab for incubation to protect them from predators and vehicles on the beach. The six other eggs had grown too hot and were no longer viable.
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