A 3-limbed Kemp's ridley sea turtle is now being tracked at sea by satellite
25.03.2026
The veterinary staff at a Florida sea turtle hospital is getting help from space to monitor the animals they have rehabilitated. Using satellite tracking devices in a collaboration between the Loggerhead Marinelife Center and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, scientists are learning how well sea turtles can survive in the wild after losing a limb. Amelie, a Kemp's ridley sea turtle who lost her right forelimb to a predator — most likely a shark, the center said — was taken to the
