The Kemp Ridley turtle has long been the most mysterious of turtles. In the mid-20th century the turtle pioneer Archie Carr and many other biologists searched high and low trying to find where these turtles nested. Talking to villagers and fisherman alike, nobody could find a nesting beach. Many biologists concluded that the kemp ridley was not even a ‘real species’ because no one had seen it lay eggs, some called it the mule of the sea, being a hybrid of two other species pe