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A two-headed diamondback terrapin that hatched in mid-September is now being cared for at a wildlife center on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The baby turtle weighs just 5.2 grams, about the size of a nickel, and its two heads share one body. Vets do not yet know how it will develop, but staff are watching its feeding, growth and behavior closely, and the case is only the third of its kind the center has handled in five to six years. How the hatchling reached the Cape Wildlife Center The hatchling arrived at the Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2026. Staff from Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary brought it in after it was found at a protected nesting site in Wellfleet. Fox Weather reported that the find came during nest monitoring, shortly after the tu...

On 16 September, an olive ridley sea turtle crawled out of the Pacific near Seal Beach in Orange County, dug a hole in the sand and laid her eggs, something no sea turtle has ever been recorded doing on the US West Coast. The Huntington Beach Fire Department filmed it, and the footage was later shared by NOAA Fisheries. Three days afterwards a turtle came ashore again near the Huntington Beach Pier, a few miles to the south, and laid a second nest. Both spots are now fenced off and signposted, and each is thought to hold between 50 and 100 eggs. NOAA Fisheries describes it as the first-ever recorded natural nesting of any sea turtle species on this coast. The bigger questions come after that: why an olive ridley sea turtle turned up in Southern California at all, whether these eggs have...

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Rare Two-Headed Diamondback Terrapin Hatchling Under Care on Cape Cod

A Tropical Turtle Nested in California for the First Time. Will the Eggs Hatch?