Dozens of eggs from the first documented natural sea turtle nests on the U.S. West Coast hatched and were released on Seal Beach nearly two months after they were moved to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, officials said Saturday.
“We are excited to share that some of the olive ridley sea turtle eggs from Seal Beach successfully hatched after a 58-day incubation period,” the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in a social media post Saturday morning. “Working with our partners, we carefully released them from the beach in the dark early hours of this morning. The hatchlings were released where light, human disturbance and other distractions were minimal.”
Dr. Lance Adams, director of veterinary services at the Aquarium of the Pacific, said during a Saturday news conference that the first sign of hatching came Thursday, when there was a disturbance in the sand in the incubation container…