The tough challenges sea turtles face and their journey can help kids connect with the importance of environmental awareness.

It's sea turtle nesting season, and everyone knows what that means — turn off your lights at night. Flipping your light ...

Sea turtles have traversed the deep, blue sea for over 100 million years, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature. Today, ...

By reducing bycatch, observing fisheries and responding to sea turtle strandings and entanglements, the Sea Turtle Early Restoration Project hopes to turn the tide in the turtles’ favor. “It’s hard to ...

About 50% of female sea turtles complete "false crawls," which occur when they crawl onto the beach but return to the water without laying eggs.

False crawls occur for a variety of reasons, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. They include: Artificial lighting: Nesting female sea turtles can be impacted by ...

Because Florida's shorelines provide important nesting habitats for several species of threatened and endangered sea turtles, beachgoers can have a significant impact on the success of this year ...

Most stranded sea turtles don’t need extra medical care. Those that do are taken to one of the state’s aquariums. The one's that can't be saved are humanely euthanized.

Sea turtles are fascinating creatures of the ocean. They’re very famous for their mass egg hatchings on beaches, so it’s easy to overlook something as simple as their diet. Check out this ...

Sea turtles can survive being struck by a boat propeller ... They can eat and they defecate, but if you look at the shape of the shell and then do a radiograph, you're going to see that ...

Sea turtles can recover quickly from brief exposures to cold temperatures near the 50-degree threshold with few long-lasting effects, but this is more common in cold-stunning events that happen in ...

Nesting sea turtles leave about 75 percent of their energy on land in the form of eggs and hatchlings before they return to sea. A Poorer World So, turtles do a lot for the world’s ecology.