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1. Loggerhead An adult Loggerhead sea turtle weighs 250 - 400 pounds and can be up to 3.5 feet in length. Its carapace is reddish-brown while its skin tends to be a lighter tan or blonde color. A Loggerhead will have 5 lateral scutes. 2. Green An adult Green sea turtle weighs 250-450 pounds and can be up to 5 feet in length.
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Luckily, this 8.8-pound green sea turtle found himself right where he needed to be this spring - at the Sea Turtle Assistance and Rehabilitation (STAR) Center at the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island. There, caretakers tended to his wounds and put him on antibiotics. Within a few days, his appetite had returned and Wickershams was a.
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The five sea turtles of the Outer Banks. This is a supplement to an earlier feature on the nesting success of sea turtles. Worldwide, there are only seven species of sea turtles and five of them, with varying degrees of frequency, can be found in the waters and nesting onshore on the Outer Banks. While North Carolina hosts a total of 22 species.
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July 23 · Corolla, NC · Giant sea turtle meets the wild horses at Outer Banks beach 31K 111K shares Giant sea turtle meets the wild horses at Outer Banks beach 😍
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The giant sea turtle, a majestic creature of the ocean, found itself navigating the sandy shores where the untamed wild horses freely roam. It was a meeting of two worlds - the vastness of the sea colliding with the rugged expanse of the beach.
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Giant sea turtle meets the wild horses at Outer Banks beach
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A photo shared over the weekend on OBX Life Facebook shows a giant sea turtle meeting the Wild Horses on the North Carolina Outerbanks. Would I be terrified of both the horses and the turtle? Perhaps. Though the horses I may be expecting to see and if I was a fair distance away? I'd probably be good. And even I could outrun the turtle.
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WTVD. OCRACOKE ISLAND, N.C. (WTVD) -- It's been 11 years since a leatherback sea turtle laid a nest on Ocracoke Island until this week. On Monday, a nest with 93 eggs was laid on the beach.
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May 7, 2012. COROLLA, N.C. — Come summer, the beaches of this barrier island will be choked with cars and sunbathers, but in the off-season the land is left to wild horses. Smallish, tending.
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Leatherback sea turtles are the largest turtles in the world — they're capable of reaching over 2,000 pounds. Here's what brings them to the South Carolina coast, and some other quick facts.
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A photo shared over the weekend on OBX Life Facebook shows a giant sea turtle meeting the Wild Horses on the North Carolina Outerbanks.
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Wild horses meet up with a giant sea turtle at the Corolla Wild Horse Beach on the Outer Banks of NC!
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In a rare and captivating spectacle, a giant sea turtle recently had a chance encounter with the wild horses that roam the shores of the Outer Banks beach. This unique and unexpected meeting provided onlookers with a mesmerizing display of nature's diverse inhabitants coming together in an extraordinary setting. The Outer Banks, known for its.
