It seems fitting that Dellora – a creature named for one of the region’s conservation heroines – laid the season’s first documented green sea turtle nest on Sanibel last month. The Sanibel ...

A green sea turtle named Dellora laid the first documented green sea turtle nest of the season on Sanibel Island. Green sea turtles are less common than loggerheads in the area. Dellora ...

This makes it easy for them to mistake balloons as food. Green turtles, on the other hand, primarily feed on algae and sea grasses, spending only three to five years in the open ocean before ...