National Marine Life Center

Posted by Kathy Zagzebski on Jul 24, 2014

Celebrate Marine Animals & the Cape Cod Canal!

It’s the 100th year anniversary of the Cape Cod Canal! For the past century, the Canal has not only been important to human commerce and transportation, it has also been utilized by a variety of marine animal species. Visit us next week, July 28 – August 2, to learn about the whales, dolphins, seals, turtles, birds, fish, and other animals that inhabit and traverse the Canal! Special Canal...

Posted by Sam U on Jul 7, 2014

Diamondback Terrapin Release!

This past Wednesday, National Marine Life Center staff and volunteers took a little road trip down to Lieutenant Island, Mass Audubon Welfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary to release three of our Diamondback Terrapins – Penny, Schofield, and Bubbles. The three terrapins had all been victims of cold stunning, meaning that their internal body temperatures had dropped dangerously low due to cold...

Posted by Chase M on Jul 5, 2014

Greetings from Costa Rica!

Greetings from Parismina, Costa Rica! It has been an amazing first week here on the Caribbean coast. I am currently volunteering at a sea turtle conservation program through the International Volunteer Headquarters organization and we are working with Leatherbacks, the largest species of sea turtle. Leatherback sea turtles are considered the most critically endangered species of sea turtles as they...

Posted by Sam U on Jun 19, 2014

Meet Rose!

Meet Rose!Rose is our newest patient here at the NMLC. Little Rose was found in Star Island, NH. She was watched and observed for many days to make sure that her mother was not coming back before being rescued and brough to our facility by the Seacoast Science Center. When Rose first came to the NMLC she was very malnourished and thin, but with the help of the volunteers and staff she is putting on...

Posted by Steve P on Jun 17, 2014

The Turtles’ Day With the Vet

As part of the rehabilitation process here at NMLC, our little friends are visited by the veterinarian once a week. Each turtle is taken out of their tank and examined. The doctor weighs them, measures their shell, and gives them an overall inspection. He is checking on the firmness of their shell, as several of our smaller turtles have metabolic bone disease. He checks to see if their paws are in good...

Posted by Chase M on Jun 10, 2014

Weekly Update

Off to a good start this week! Veterinarian Dr. Rogers Williams came in today for the weekly rounds and was able to check up on Barclay, our harbor seal pup, Cherry, Gage, and North Star, our three Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, and Tide, our loggerhead sea turtle. Blood work was taken on the Kemp’s ridleys, along with size and weight measurements; all looking healthy. Tide’s carapace (hard...

Posted by Sam U on Jun 3, 2014

Meet Barclay!

Meet Barclay! Barclay is our newest patient at the National Marine Life Center. He is a harbor seal pup that stranded in Maine and was rescued by Marine Mammals of Maine. He was brought to our center for rehabilitation and (hopefully) eventual release back into the wild. He still had his umbilical cord attached when he first arrived. Additionally, there bites on his back from an unknown source. Right...

Posted by Sam U on May 29, 2014

How do you help stranded marine animals?

It is the mission of the National Marine Life Center to rehabilitate stranded marine mammals and return them to the wild, and we would not be able to that without the help of the public! Stranded seal pups like Belmont and Barclay would not be in our facilities if they had not been reported to the appropriate rescue organization, then sent to NMLC for rehabilitation, so thank you! However, it is always...