JUNO BEACH – It’s turtle walk season, a time when people can witness one of the Atlantic Coast environment’s most remarkable moments: sea turtle nesting. Local residents and visitors in northern Palm ...

A motorist driving illegally on a dark Outer Banks beach is suspected of killing a loggerhead sea turtle as she was laying her eggs, according to the National Park Service. The incident happened ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. – Rare sea turtles are smashing nesting records this summer on beaches in the Southeast, with scientists crediting the egg-laying boom to conservation measures that began more than 30 ...

Other species sometimes nest on Sanibel, Fort Myers Beach and Bonita Beach, but the loggerhead is responsible for hundreds of nests here.

They're one of the giant megafauna Florida is so famous for, ocean-going travelers that cross a good chunk of the planet before returning home to breed. Sea turtle nesting season starts soon, and some ...

FRISCO — A loggerhead nest found near Frisco on Hatteras Island on Saturday marks the first recorded sea turtle nest of the year on the Outer Banks. Cape Hatteras National Seashore posted on social ...

Veronica Baruffati walks the stretch of sand on the southern end of Palm Beach every day, from her part-time Florida home north past Sloan’s Curve and back again. What she saw while walking that beach ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A large sea turtle that was found injured along the Florida coast in May following a boat strike was returned to the ocean on Wednesday. The adult female named Pennywise, which ...