National Marine Life Center

Posted by Kathy Zagzebski on Feb 26, 2014

Registration Open for the 2014 Feet, Fins & Flippers 5K!

Registration is now OPEN for the 4th Annual Feet, Fins & Flippers 5K! Come one, come all! Use your FEET to help our FINNED and FLIPPERED friends! Join runners, walkers, and animal-lovers in a 5K run/walk to raise money for the National Marine Life Center! This is a fun, family oriented, pet-friendly event that also features activities and an “Animal Rescue Fun Run” for kids. Date: Sunday,...

Posted by Kirstie Beaton on Feb 3, 2014

The Ridley in the Library with the Candlestick, right?

Did you know that the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle was at one time considered the most mysterious turtle of the Gulf coast? According to prominent sea turtle naturalist Archie Carr, the ridley was maddeningly perplexing. Recently I have been reading Dr. Carr’s accounts of his experiences searching for sea turtles throughout the Gulf coast and Caribbean during the 1940s in his book, The...

Posted by Kathy Zagzebski on Feb 1, 2014

Become an Extra in Cool Stuff Dolphins!

Join us at the Cool Stuff Dolphins fundraiser and become an extra in the film! “Cool Stuff Dolphins” is a program by Purple Turtle Productions, Inc. that was filmed in part at the National Marine Life Center. It promotes education, science, conservation, and increased awareness of our oceans and the dolphins that inhabit them. For more about the Cool Stuff story, click here. What: Cool Stuff...

Posted by Troy M. on Jan 25, 2014

Working with the Red-Bellies

Working with the northern red-bellied cooter hatchlings at the National Marine Life Center has been a real treat. The hatchlings came to the Center on my first day of interning and were practically the size of quarters, but now after only a few months they’ve grown noticeably bigger. Being able to care for and witness the red-bellied hatchlings as they grow into healthy and strong adults has been...

Posted by Kirstie Beaton on Jan 25, 2014

Sea Turtle Surprise

Before I started interning with NMLC I had never before considered working with sea turtles. It’s not that I did not like turtles but more simply that my attention was drawn to the flashiness of marine mammals. However, now that I have been working with the Kemps and Tide for a few months, I have come to realize that I really enjoy working with these animals. Surprise for me!! Now you might...

Posted by Kathy Zagzebski on Jan 24, 2014

2014 Feet Fins & Flippers 5K T-Shirt Design Contest

The National Marine Life Center is gearing up for it’s annual Feet Fins & Flippers 5K which will be held on Sunday May 25th, 2014 with a race start time of 9am. Last year we held our first 5K race t-shirt design contest to create a unique collectable t-shirt for our race participants. We got some great design submissions and fell in love with the winning design created by Jennifer Tribou of...

Posted by Kathy Zagzebski on Dec 31, 2013

Townsend Shows We’re All Connected!

Townsend shows we’re all connected. Townsend is a juvenile male harbor seal, named after NMLC co-founder Townsend Hornor, that was the first patient admitted to our new marine animal hospital just over a year ago. You may have read about him in previous website posts (Arrival, Detection of Ear Infection, CT Scans at WHOI, Seeking a Satellite Tag, Final Diagnostic Tests). To recap, a few days after...

Posted by Kathy Zagzebski on Dec 30, 2013

One Tiny Turtle (Number 31′s Story)

Number 31 needs your help! Number 31 is one of our tiniest sea turtles, yet she’s a fighter. Weighing just over three pounds, this endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle was brought in to the National Marine Life Center’s hospital late last month. Like the other ten juvenile sea turtles in our care, she had stranded on Cape Cod with severe hypothermia – called cold stunning – and...