The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

Here are ten fun facts about turtles ... temperature can skew sex ratios. Turtles are incredibly diverse in their dietary ...

There are seven species of sea turtles, and six of them—green, hawksbill, Kemp’s ridley, leatherback, loggerhead, and olive ridley—are listed as endangered or threatened. The flatback ...

Six of the seven species of sea turtles that swim the planet’s waters—leatherback, loggerhead, Kemp’s ridley, green, olive ridley, and hawksbill—are found in every ocean except the Arctic ...

Kaya, and other kids like her, can pitch in to help save the green sea turtle population of Saipan before it's too late. "My Haggan Dream" was funded by NOAA and co-produced by Stephani Gordon of ...

Musk turtles eat mollusks, plants, small fish and insects. The cooter turtle is mostly vegetarian, and the green sea turtle only eats grasses and algae. The alligator snapping turtle lures in fish ...

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Governments have agreed a Global Ocean Treaty that should give sea turtles a better chance to survive. But they still need our help. Here are some fascinating turtle facts to inspire you to get ...

Apparently it's pretty easy being green after all. That was the takeaway from Tuesday's physical examination of Myrtle, an ancient green sea turtle that ... with their kids who say, ‘This ...

Sea turtles, also called marine turtles, look like regular turtles, but have flippers instead of legs. They have been on Earth for more than 100 million years, according to the World Wildlife ...