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500+ pound endangered turtle found dead near Destin, FL — Officials ‘might’ perform necropsy

April 24th, 2011 at 07:23 AM

Turtle found at Meigs Park weighed in at 520 (VIDEO, PHOTOS), NW Florida Daily News, ... Read more >>

Now the turtles: 39 sea turtles found dead in past two weeks… just in Mississippi — “A sharp jump”

March 30th, 2011 at 07:45 AM

Sea turtle deaths up along Gulf, joining dolphin trend, MSNBC, March 29, 2011 ... Read more >>

Dead sea turtles washing up on beaches near spring breakers -- "Water looks like chicken broth" (PHOTOS)

March 29th, 2011 at 06:53 AM

Sea Turtle Deaths Anger Mississippi Residents, Huffington Post, March 29, 2011 ... Read more >>

Report: Particularly deadly night on Perdido Key, FL (PHOTOS)

March 1st, 2011 at 04:51 PM

One more Juvenile Porpoise and Turtle found this morning. ... Read more >>

Even though dead turtles were “covered in oil”, scientist can’t say they “definitely” died from the oil disaster (VIDEO)

February 28th, 2011 at 06:01 PM

Geraldo at Large, Fox News, February 26, 2011:

At ... Read more >>

Dead dolphins, sea turtles, and tons of angelfish in Galveston, Texas (VIDEO)

January 21st, 2011 at 05:22 PM

"There's some dead dolphins down on the shore... a couple of sea turtles... Don't really want to show you those pictures, they're not very pretty... I'm not really sure why all these fish are dying." ... Read more >>

BP, Feds say 400 turtles dead, “I’d bet my house it’s more like 4,000″ says expert — Rumors of “plastic bags marked for incineration”

September 23rd, 2010 at 10:10 AM

The Oil and the Turtles, Vanity Fair, September 21, 2010:

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The official marine-life casualty ... Read more >>

DISTURBING: Nest of baby turtle eggs surrounded with tarballs — “We dug in the sand a few feet and found layers of black sand” (PHOTOS & VIDEO)

September 13th, 2010 at 08:37 AM

Tarballs on Horn Island, Greenpeace Blogpost by Phil Kline, September 8, 2010:

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Horn Island, off the ... Read more >>

Hazmat leader: “Large bones” washing up at low tide, “mammal bones, turtle bones”; “A lot of large fish — dead on the beach” (VIDEO)

August 5th, 2010 at 03:48 AM

The emergency management director is Hancock County, Mississippi says the "oil is there, you just ... Read more >>

“Mass eradication” of sea turtle food source; “There were thousands of these guys dead on the surface” says oceanographer

July 29th, 2010 at 12:19 PM

Chemical oceanographer John Kessler from Texas A&M University returned from sampling the waters around the ... Read more >>

Currents moving up the East Coast - in Northeast Florida, they're about 50 miles offshore ... Read more >>

White House Pressured Scientists to Underestimate BP Spill Size (VIDEO)

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500+ pound endangered turtle found dead near Destin, FL — Officials ‘might’ perform necropsy

Now the turtles: 39 sea turtles found dead in past two weeks… just in Mississippi — “A sharp jump”

Dead sea turtles washing up on beaches near spring breakers -- "Water looks like chicken broth" (PHOTOS)

Report: Particularly deadly night on Perdido Key, FL (PHOTOS)

Even though dead turtles were “covered in oil”, scientist can’t say they “definitely” died from the oil disaster (VIDEO)

Dead dolphins, sea turtles, and tons of angelfish in Galveston, Texas (VIDEO)

BP, Feds say 400 turtles dead, “I’d bet my house it’s more like 4,000″ says expert — Rumors of “plastic bags marked for incineration”

DISTURBING: Nest of baby turtle eggs surrounded with tarballs — “We dug in the sand a few feet and found layers of black sand” (PHOTOS & VIDEO)

Hazmat leader: “Large bones” washing up at low tide, “mammal bones, turtle bones”; “A lot of large fish — dead on the beach” (VIDEO)

“Mass eradication” of sea turtle food source; “There were thousands of these guys dead on the surface” says oceanographer

Gulf Scientist: Oil is “causing ulcers” in sealife, then destroying “livers” and “immune and nervous systems”

Sea Turtles swim ‘all over the world’ then ‘come back to their natal beach to lay their own eggs’; Tar balls in stomach

Hatchling turtles ‘act like little pieces of floating debris’

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