Biologists begin to salvage sea turtle eggs in oiled Gulf
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Biologist Lorna Patrick dug gingerly into the beach Friday, gently brushing away sand to reveal dozens of leathery, golfball-sized loggerhead sea turtle eggs. Patrick, of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, carefully plucked the eggs from the foot-deep (30-centimeter-deep) hole and placed them one-by-one in a cooler layered with moist sand from the nest, the first step in a sweeping and unprecedented turtle egg evacuation to save thousands of threatened hatchlings from certain death in the oiled Gulf of Mexico.
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Biologists begin to salvage sea turtle eggs in oiled Gulf. (2010, July 11). Manila Bulletin, p. 23.
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