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JUNO BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Researchers at Loggerhead Marinelife Center (LMC) have recorded their first sea turtle nests of the year on Juno Beach, marking an early start to the nesting season.

“It’s not that the sea turtles were ever lost, but that we had lost track of them,” said Jeanette Wyneken at Florida Atlantic University, who had no role in the research.