After you've shelled out a small fortune for a plane ticket, it's always disappointing to find out your flight's been delayed. But outgoing flights from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport weren't running late on Wednesday morning due to weather. Instead, a horde of turtles came to shore from Jamaica Bay and took over the tarmac. A group of 78 diamondback terrapin turtles, each weighing two to three pounds and measuring about nine inches long, spent about 35 minutes on the runway before they were removed via pickup truck. The turtles appear to be a group of females who are getting ready to lay eggs, and were looking for a place to nest en masse. The resulting flight delays averaged about an hour and a half, according to the New York Times:
[The turtles] were originally spotted around 8:30 a.m. by a pilot, who radioed the tower. “It’s not ...
