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Georgia loggerhead turtles lay record 4,174 nests
The nests represent a slow but steady rebound for the threatened loggerhead species after decades of decline.
Watch it as it aired: Kenji Moonfield and Vera Bullock on this story, from BBN Tonight at 6:24 PM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are The Washington Post's, the jokes are ours.

At a glance
- First reported by The Washington Post: “Sea turtle nests broke a record this year. Why that’s a good thing.”
- Covered on BBN on Monday, October 12, 2026, at 6:24 PM ET on BBN Tonight, by Kenji Moonfield and Vera Bullock.
- Topics: Georgia.
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- The Washington PostSea turtle nests broke a record this year. Why that’s a good thing.
What BBN said about it

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOn a lighter note, Georgia's beaches logged four thousand one hundred seventy-four loggerhead sea turtle nests this year, the most in decades, the Washington Post reports.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThis is file footage, not the Georgia turtles, just archive hatchlings doing their best. Roll it.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentLook at this, two of them just popped out of the sand.

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThey're very small. I'm not watching closely.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWatch the one on its own here, crossing the sand toward the water. That flipper work is elite.

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHe's stopping! Keep going, sweetheart, the ocean is right there!

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYou said you didn't care.

Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI contain multitudes. Now run it back.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentViral Score, eight out of ten. Two points off because the last hatchling took eleven seconds to cross one footprint.
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