As a response to COVID-19 our Center is currently closed to the public however, our lifesaving work continues and our sea turtle patients are safe. Please check our website and social media platforms for when we will resume our public operations.
Join us weekdays for our Virtual Coastal Classroom at 2 p.m. eastern and weekends at 11 a.m. eastern where you can visit with our sea turtle patients and learn about ocean conservation.
LMC’s Director of Researcher, Dr. Justin Perrault, discovered an interesting wound on the head of a nesting leatherback sea turtle named Windy. Initially, the team was participating in a larger study documenting injuries on turtles that nest on local beaches monitored by LMC, but this inquiry led them to discover much more. The manuscript recently…