A Florida nuclear plant logged 19,987 sea-turtle capture events over 47 years after its cooling pipes kept pulling turtles into a canal, and the accidental dataset revealed nomads, residents, and seasonal visitors hiding among animals that all looked roughly the same size

The St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant off Florida’s Hutchinson Island relies on huge amounts of water moving through its cooling canal. It is fed by massive submerged intake pipes. Marine turtles swimming along the Atlantic coast have been swept into the waterway for five decades. Biologists monitoring the canal have recorded almost 20,000 capture events. ... Read more