When it comes time for female sea turtles to lay their eggs, they will deposit them in a nest and cover the nest with sand.

A recent tragedy occurred in Indian River County, Florida when an elderly man tried to save a turtle. The reptile was slowly ...

How rainfall impacts size of sea turtle hatchlings. Florida Atlantic University. Journal BMC Ecology and Evolution DOI 10.1186/s12862-024-02290-7. Keywords ...

Still, they were looking at the largest turtle ever found in Europe, Sellés said. The new species, Leviathanochelys aenigmatica, lived 72.1 to 83.6 million years ago during the Campanian Age ...

A B.C. nurse is being credited with documenting a rare sighting of one of the ocean's most elusive giants: a leatherback sea ...

Other large turtles from Earth's past include Protostega and Stupendemys, both reaching about 13 feet (4 meters) long. Protostega was a Cretaceous sea turtle that lived about 85 million years ago ...

A Kemp’s Ridley Sea turtle named Tally will be released into the Gulf of Mexico in September, ... The turtle's location, size, proximity to the surf, and condition (dead or alive) ...

Few complete fossils of the Jurassic sea turtle named Solnhofia parsonsi have ... But the newly described fossil’s limbs were stumpier than those of modern sea turtles relative to its body size.