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The problem is getting bigger and bigger by the minute, we see turtles that are entangled in ghost fishing nets. Sometimes it’s even just turtle carcasses. We see ingestion of plastic fragments. Then there’s also the pollutants – chemicals. – Matthias Egger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The place where we found these samples (of plastic) is a permanently preserved area in Brazil, near the place green turtles lay their eggs. – Fernanda Avelar Santos	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Sequential laying is the release of eggs one by one with some time gap in between two laying events. This is seen in birds. Modern reptiles, for example turtles and crocodiles, on the other hand, lay all eggs together as a clutch. – Guntupalli Prasad	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It takes a lot of coordination among trained, authorized individuals to successfully rescue stranded sea turtles, it is therefore critical that citizens report their sightings immediately, so that rescue efforts can begin quickly. – Mary Kay	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Some fishers think the turtles eat all the seagrass before it grows and that prevents the fish from spawning in the area. – Yoshi Tsukakoshi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
So I kind of got down on my hands and knees and I real gently brushed a little bit of sand back and then -- lo and behold, there's an egg, there's one hatching, we watched several of the turtles hatch in front of our eyes. – Pamela Plotkin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Lizards and turtles sit in the sun and bask, and we may have to consider similar' behavioral' thermoregulation in ornithischians with exceptionally low metabolic rates. Cold-blooded dinosaurs also might have had to migrate to warmer climates during the cold season, and climate may have been a selective factor for where some of these dinosaurs could live. – Jasmina Wiemann	Found on CNN 1 year ago
They seem to be heron-like in their habits so they would be wading in shallow water and taking fish and other swimming things like small turtles and young crocodiles and doing the same on land going after baby dinosaurs and mammals, they would have been able to strike down hard and fast, just as herons do, so it would be a quick snap down on something relatively small. – David Hone	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are seeing this exponential increase of marine deaths, including dolphins, turtles. What is noticeable is the exponential increase started soon after this accident, we are seeing 30 to 40 cases reported daily. – Don Muditha Katuwawala	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think everyone in the community is frustrated, when you see dead dolphins in the water, when you see dead manatees in the water, dead sea turtles... when you have captains who have fished in the area for decades say they have never seen anything like this, that is enough to declare a state of emergency and not just say it's another naturally occurring harmful algal bloom. – Thomas Paterek	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It showed that the captured rate for turtles was eight times higher than it is in the winter on average, that was a take level that was considered to be unacceptably high. The project was shut down. – Mark Dodd	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We know this because the turtles are heavy and they leave very clear tracks and other signs in the sand, she emerged from the ocean, crawled up towards the landward part of the beach and attempted to dig several, several nests. – Erin Seney	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's the first two-headed snake that I've personally seen, though I've observed it in turtles before, a two-headed copperhead was recently found in Virginia, but unfortunately died within a few weeks. – Jonathan Mays	Found on CNN 3 years ago
With ongoing support and cooperation, we are hopeful that the number of turtles will continue to increase in the coming years. – Ken Sereyrotha	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The structure of PPE will make it particularly hazardous for marine life, gloves, like plastic bags, can appear to be jellyfish or other types of foods for sea turtles, for example. The straps on masks can present entangling hazards. – John Hocevar	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We take all species here. We have hawks, owls, songbirds, snakes, turtles, possums, foxes, coyotes, armadillos, flying squirrels, chipmunks, you name it. We take everything. – Scott Lange	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The reason why Laurasichersis survived the great extinction, while none of the other primitive North American, European or Asian land turtles managed to do so, remains a mystery. – Prez Garca	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Small amounts of waste that we are hoarding in our homes can become a' big ghost', it can fill the guts of dead whales, and get stuck in the noses of dead turtles at sea. – Abdul Latief	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The illegal trade of turtles is having a global impact on many turtle species and our ecosystems. – Eric Sutton	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Plastic is a cheap product to make, but it comes at a high price to our environment, i can't even stand the thought of it, when I go to the beach and see all the plastic on the waves and in the sand. It's found in most every bird stomach and in sea turtles and whales that starve to death, and the problem is getting much worse. – Jacqueline Savitz	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I can't even stand the thought of it, when I go to the beach and see all the plastic on the waves and in the sand. It's found in most every bird stomach and in sea turtles and whales that starve to death, and the problem is getting much worse. – Clare Ostle	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Frogs and turtles that live in seasonally cold places are very well-adapted to survive the winter, even a particularly long one, however, it is doubtful that they could survive a hibernation that lasts multiple years. – Jon Costanzo	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
You can call yourselves the mother chickens of turtles, for all I care, but that reputation you carry as NSM, which carries fear and revere, National Socialist Movement's gone. – James Hart Stern	Found on CNN 5 years ago
He never even hesitated, he took off and has been doing great. Turtles are really good at healing as long as the shell remains stable. – Garrett Fraess	Found on FOX News 5 years ago

The problem is getting bigger and bigger by the minute, we see turtles that are entangled in ghost fishing nets. Sometimes it’s even just turtle carcasses. We see ingestion of plastic fragments. Then there’s also the pollutants – chemicals.

– Matthias Egger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The place where we found these samples (of plastic) is a permanently preserved area in Brazil, near the place green turtles lay their eggs.

– Fernanda Avelar Santos

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Sequential laying is the release of eggs one by one with some time gap in between two laying events. This is seen in birds. Modern reptiles, for example turtles and crocodiles, on the other hand, lay all eggs together as a clutch.

– Guntupalli Prasad

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It takes a lot of coordination among trained, authorized individuals to successfully rescue stranded sea turtles, it is therefore critical that citizens report their sightings immediately, so that rescue efforts can begin quickly.

– Mary Kay

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Some fishers think the turtles eat all the seagrass before it grows and that prevents the fish from spawning in the area.

– Yoshi Tsukakoshi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

So I kind of got down on my hands and knees and I real gently brushed a little bit of sand back and then -- lo and behold, there's an egg, there's one hatching, we watched several of the turtles hatch in front of our eyes.

– Pamela Plotkin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Lizards and turtles sit in the sun and bask, and we may have to consider similar' behavioral' thermoregulation in ornithischians with exceptionally low metabolic rates. Cold-blooded dinosaurs also might have had to migrate to warmer climates during the cold season, and climate may have been a selective factor for where some of these dinosaurs could live.

– Jasmina Wiemann

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They seem to be heron-like in their habits so they would be wading in shallow water and taking fish and other swimming things like small turtles and young crocodiles and doing the same on land going after baby dinosaurs and mammals, they would have been able to strike down hard and fast, just as herons do, so it would be a quick snap down on something relatively small.

– David Hone

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are seeing this exponential increase of marine deaths, including dolphins, turtles. What is noticeable is the exponential increase started soon after this accident, we are seeing 30 to 40 cases reported daily.

– Don Muditha Katuwawala

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think everyone in the community is frustrated, when you see dead dolphins in the water, when you see dead manatees in the water, dead sea turtles... when you have captains who have fished in the area for decades say they have never seen anything like this, that is enough to declare a state of emergency and not just say it's another naturally occurring harmful algal bloom.

– Thomas Paterek

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It showed that the captured rate for turtles was eight times higher than it is in the winter on average, that was a take level that was considered to be unacceptably high. The project was shut down.

– Mark Dodd

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We know this because the turtles are heavy and they leave very clear tracks and other signs in the sand, she emerged from the ocean, crawled up towards the landward part of the beach and attempted to dig several, several nests.

– Erin Seney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's the first two-headed snake that I've personally seen, though I've observed it in turtles before, a two-headed copperhead was recently found in Virginia, but unfortunately died within a few weeks.

– Jonathan Mays

Found on CNN
3 years ago

With ongoing support and cooperation, we are hopeful that the number of turtles will continue to increase in the coming years.

– Ken Sereyrotha

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The structure of PPE will make it particularly hazardous for marine life, gloves, like plastic bags, can appear to be jellyfish or other types of foods for sea turtles, for example. The straps on masks can present entangling hazards.

– John Hocevar

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We take all species here. We have hawks, owls, songbirds, snakes, turtles, possums, foxes, coyotes, armadillos, flying squirrels, chipmunks, you name it. We take everything.

– Scott Lange

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The reason why Laurasichersis survived the great extinction, while none of the other primitive North American, European or Asian land turtles managed to do so, remains a mystery.

– Prez Garca

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Small amounts of waste that we are hoarding in our homes can become a' big ghost', it can fill the guts of dead whales, and get stuck in the noses of dead turtles at sea.

– Abdul Latief

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The illegal trade of turtles is having a global impact on many turtle species and our ecosystems.

– Eric Sutton

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Plastic is a cheap product to make, but it comes at a high price to our environment, i can't even stand the thought of it, when I go to the beach and see all the plastic on the waves and in the sand. It's found in most every bird stomach and in sea turtles and whales that starve to death, and the problem is getting much worse.

– Jacqueline Savitz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I can't even stand the thought of it, when I go to the beach and see all the plastic on the waves and in the sand. It's found in most every bird stomach and in sea turtles and whales that starve to death, and the problem is getting much worse.

– Clare Ostle

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Frogs and turtles that live in seasonally cold places are very well-adapted to survive the winter, even a particularly long one, however, it is doubtful that they could survive a hibernation that lasts multiple years.

– Jon Costanzo

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

You can call yourselves the mother chickens of turtles, for all I care, but that reputation you carry as NSM, which carries fear and revere, National Socialist Movement's gone.

– James Hart Stern

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He never even hesitated, he took off and has been doing great. Turtles are really good at healing as long as the shell remains stable.

– Garrett Fraess

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

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