“A sea turtle crawled out of the surf in southern California last weekend around sunset and started laying eggs in the sand.

People on Huntington Beach who saw the female olive ridley sea turtle were shocked and excited. And they weren’t the only ones freaking out, said Justin Viezbicke, the California stranding coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (Noaa).

'This is the first documented case of a turtle nesting on the west coast,' Viezbicke said…

While it’s too soon to tell, it’s also possible that these first recorded US coastal nests could herald a broader northward shift in the olive ridley turtle’s nesting patterns.”

From The Guardian.