"After several false starts at digging a nest, a six-foot-long [1.8-meter-long] leatherback turtle lays her eggs at midnight. Five of the world's seven species of sea turtles come to this remote coast, making it one of Africa's most important sea turtle nesting grounds."
From "Megatransect III," August 2001, National Geographic magazine
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