by Susan | Oct 7, 2010 | BP oil spill, Chemicals in the Environment, Gulf Coast Oil Spill
The life of a sea turtle hatchling isn’t easy. After they hatch out of leathery eggs in a nest, buried deep in the sand, they move immediately toward the light above the ocean, scramble into the surf, and swim for a couple of days straight without stopping....
by Susan | Jul 27, 2010 | BP oil spill, Gulf Coast Oil Spill, Sea turtles
At Padre Island National Seashore, thousands of Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle hatchlings, raised in captivity, have been released today, but they face an uncertain future. These hatchlings will imprint on the sand at the Padre Seashore. If they survive, female adult...
by Susan | May 25, 2010 | BP oil spill, Gulf Coast Oil Spill
We’ve abandoned our amphibian friends for a couple of weeks to write about the Gulf Coast Oil spill, and while I’d hoped to get back to them this week, the latest news about the oil washing up and covering wetlands seemed too important for us to ignore....
by Susan | May 17, 2010 | Gulf Coast Oil Spill
Like sea turtles and birds, dolphins and other marine mammals are extremely vulnerable to the effects of oil. There are 35,000 to 45,000 bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico, one of the largest populations of dolphins off the coast of the U.S. Unlike fish,...
by Susan | May 12, 2010 | Gulf Coast Oil Spill
During the Age of the Dinosaurs, the sea teemed with marine reptiles. But when the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago, only a few reptiles remained in the sea—sea turtles, sea snakes, saltwater crocodiles, and marine iguanas. These ancient sea creatures have...
