A crew from Coast Guard Station Menemsha Sunday came to the rescue of a leatherback sea turtle entangled in a lobster pot south of Cuttyhunk.
Turtles
2017
January 18, 2017
Kemp’s ridley sea turtles have a lot of superlatives to their name, but “most likely to succeed” may not one of them.
2016
November 30, 2016
There are some turtles that take their breaths through their other end. Yes, that’s right, not through their mouth, but through their anus.
August 29, 2016
Oscar Thompson has spent the summer chasing turtles for his senior thesis at college. Not known for their speed, painted turtles can still be elusive in their natural habitat deep within the Vineyard's ponds.
January 7, 2016
A seasonal resident of Chilmark stepped up to help stranded sea turtles over the Christmas holiday, arranging for 50 of the endangered reptiles to be flown to warmer waters and rehabilitated.
