PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE, Texas (AP) — Hundreds of tiny baby turtles with their dime-sized paddle-like feet dragged through the sand on Monday heading for a new home in the Gulf of Mexico despite the threat of oil some 400 miles away.
Born just days ago, these endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles were released off the Texas coast to a perilous life fleeing predators — and now also oil from the BP spill.
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