{"id":170988,"date":"2025-09-26T16:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170988\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:35:10","slug":"leatherback-turtle-washes-up-on-trepassey-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170988\/","title":{"rendered":"Leatherback Turtle Washes Up on Trepassey Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/leatherback-turtle-1.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Leatherback Turtle Washes Up on Trepassey Beach\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Lauren Gregory\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>A giant leatherback turtle has washed up on the beach in Trepassey on the southern Avalon. <\/p>\n<p>The massive reptiles are occasional visitors to Newfoundland waters in the late summer and early fall. <\/p>\n<p>Leatherbacks are the largest turtles alive, and as their name suggests, they don\u2019t have a typical boney shell, but a thick leathery back. <\/p>\n<p>They can reach lengths of close to 9 feet, and can weigh up to 1,100 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Leatherbacks have been known to get caught in fishing gear, but what caused the demise of this particular animal is not immediately clear. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/leatherback-turtle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/leatherback-turtle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-280761\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (Lauren Gregory\/Facebook) A giant leatherback turtle has washed up on the beach in Trepassey on the southern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-170988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}