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It s been a record-breaking year for sea turtles in Florida. Just as they have for millions of years, the turtles have crawled onto beaches, digging pits in the sand to lay their eggs. Florida s preliminary count shows more than 133,840 loggerhead turtle nests and 76,500 green turtle nests, breaking records set years ago. Other southeastern U.S. states also report high numbers. But only one in 1,000 hatchlings lives to adulthood and climate change is threatening their species as beaches disappear under rising seas. Hotter sand makes more females, and the hatchlings are smaller and slower. Experts say their future remains ominous.
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Just as they have for millions of years, sea turtles by the thousands made their labored crawl from the ocean to U.S. beaches to lay their eggs over the past several months. ....
Despite nests breaking records on US beaches INDIAN ROCKS BEACH, Florida (AP) Just as they have for millions of years, sea turtles by the thousands made their laboured crawl from the ocean to US beaches to lay their eggs over the past several months. This year, record nesting was found in Florida and elsewhere […] ....