--- title: Watch Adorable Baby Turtles Crawl to the Ocean description: Nesting season is from May to October canonical: https://time.com/3981239/turtles-beach-video/ author: Eliza Gray article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-01T19:26:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:17.153Z og:title: Watch Adorable Baby Turtles Crawl to the Ocean og:description: Their perseverance will remind you not to give up og:url: https://time.com/3981239/turtles-beach-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Adorable Baby Turtles Crawl to the Ocean twitter:description: Their perseverance will remind you not to give up twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Adorable Baby Turtles Crawl to the Ocean ## Video: Waking the Dead: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life [Watch (HLS stream): Waking the Dead: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7mURxfr4.m3u8) (4:03)  _Published 2014-03-12. Conservationists and scientists have a saying, "extinction is forever." But soon biologists will clone long-gone animals in the hope to redefine that axiom to "DE-extinction is forever."_ by [Eliza Gray](https://time.com/author/eliza-gray/) ## Eliza Gray Aug 1, 2015 7:26 PM UTC by [Eliza Gray](https://time.com/author/eliza-gray/) ## Eliza Gray Aug 1, 2015 7:26 PM UTC Beach sand isn’t the easiest place to walk, especially if you’re a baby turtle. In [this video](http://www.naplesnews.com/news/environment/watch-baby-sea-turtles-crawl-to-the-ocean-barefoot-beach) shot by Mike Ross of Naples, Fla., young turtles carefully crawl out of the sand at Barefoot Beach and make their way slowly into the waves of the ocean. The nesting season for turtles is May through October, according to the [Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission](http://www.myfwc.com/research/wildlife/sea-turtles/fl-sea-turtles/faq/). Turtles make between 40,000 and 84,000 nests annually on the Florida coast. Each nest contains between 80 and 120 eggs. Watch Adorable Baby Turtles Crawl to the Ocean ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3981239/turtles-beach-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3981239/turtles-beach-video/"},"headline":"Watch Adorable Baby Turtles Crawl to the Ocean","datePublished":"2015-08-01T19:26:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:17.153Z","description":"Nesting season is from May to October","url":"https://time.com/3981239/turtles-beach-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Gray","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-gray/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3981239/turtles-beach-video/","name":"Watch Adorable Baby Turtles Crawl to the Ocean"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Waking the Dead: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life","description":"Conservationists and scientists have a saying, \"extinction is forever.\" But soon biologists will clone long-gone animals in the hope to redefine that axiom to \"DE-extinction is forever.\"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/7mURxfr4/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-03-12T14:27:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7mURxfr4.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3981239/turtles-beach-video/","duration":"PT4M3S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3981239/turtles-beach-video/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```