{"id":79090,"date":"2026-09-23T19:55:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/in-historic-first-tropical-turtles-spotted-nesting-on-california-beaches\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:55:37","slug":"in-historic-first-tropical-turtles-spotted-nesting-on-california-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/in-historic-first-tropical-turtles-spotted-nesting-on-california-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"In historic first, tropical turtles spotted nesting on California beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What caused the turtles to begin nesting farther north than usual is the \u2018million dollar question\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A sea turtle crawled out of the surf in southern California last weekend around sunset and started laying eggs in the sand.<\/p>\n<p>People on Huntington Beach who saw the female olive ridley sea turtle were shocked and excited. And they weren\u2019t the only ones freaking out, said Justin Viezbicke, the California stranding coordinator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (Noaa).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/23\/sea-turtle-nesting-california-beaches\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What caused the turtles to begin nesting farther north than usual is the \u2018million dollar question\u2019 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 &#8230; <a title=\"In historic first, tropical turtles spotted nesting on California beaches\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/in-historic-first-tropical-turtles-spotted-nesting-on-california-beaches\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about In historic first, tropical turtles spotted nesting on California beaches\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}