Florida wildlife officials plead to keep fireworks and dogs from traumatizing nesting shorebirds and sea turtles ...

Here's how Jorge the sea turtle prepared for the improbable journey—decades after he was found tangled in a fishing net off ...

In the United States, around 2.3 million households are home to reptiles, including turtles. Here's what the reptile can and ...

How do sea turtles lay eggs, and how do the hatchlings get to the sea? What happens next? Read more to find out.

Sea turtles have traversed the deep, blue sea for over 100 million years, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature. Today, seven distinct species exist, according to seeturtles.org. Six of them ...

The challenges facing sea turtles are vast and growing. Climate change, the proliferation of single-use plastics and the risks from the growing human population have led to a distressing increase ...

Fishing bycatch accounts for 4,600 annual sea turtle deaths in the U.S. Learn more about threats to endangered sea turtles and what’s being done.

How Do Sea Turtles Find the Exact Beach Where They Were Born? The marine reptiles use Earth's magnetic field as a guide back home, new study says. By Carrie Arnold. January 16, 2015 ...

Sea turtles live for a long time; they migrate more than 1,000 miles to nest and do not reach sexual maturity until around 30 years of age. They mate only every two to five years. “There is no telling ...

A female loggerhead turtle that was rescued after wedging itself between rocks Monday morning did not nest during her interrupted trip along the beach, according to the town's sea turtle nesting ...

MARTIN: What do penguins, sea turtles and whales have in common? INSKEEP: They all make cute stuffies for small children in my family. MARTIN: That could be one thing, OK.