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A low-cost sensor resembling a sea turtle egg and dubbed TurtleSense is enabling enables scientists to monitor turtle nests remotely and predict when hatchlings will emerge.

A new inexpensive sensor engineered to look like a sea turtle egg allows researchers to observe nests remotely and predict when hatchlings will hatch.

Scientists don’t know what prompts turtle hatchlings to emerge from their nests and head for the water, but vibrations appear to play a role.