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In this study, hatchling loggerheads from a North Carolina beach were taken back to the laboratory and kept in aquarium tanks with separate magnetic fields replicating actual magnetic signatures in two ocean locations.
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Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025
Conservationists began tracking hatchlings, once on the verge of extinction, 25 years ago.
—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Dec. 2024
In May, Cambodian locals found five nests in an area that yielded 60 hatchlings, suggesting that two decades of collaboration with residents on habitat protection and monitoring may be paying off.
—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Jan. 2025
But loon hatchlings have a higher survival rate at the refuge than young ducks, geese and swans do.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
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Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2025
Conservationists began tracking hatchlings, once on the verge of extinction, 25 years ago.
—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Dec. 2024
In May, Cambodian locals found five nests in an area that yielded 60 hatchlings, suggesting that two decades of collaboration with residents on habitat protection and monitoring may be paying off.
—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Jan. 2025
But loon hatchlings have a higher survival rate at the refuge than young ducks, geese and swans do.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
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“Hatchling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hatchling. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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hatchling
noun
hatch·ling
ˈhach-liŋ 
: a recently hatched animal
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