Southwest Florida is experiencing a successful sea turtle nesting season, with numbers surpassing previous years. Collier County beaches have recorded 2,161 nests, a significant increase from the ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — It’s peak sea turtle nesting season! From August through November, adult female sea turtles will be seeking sanctuary in Hawaii’s sandy beaches to lay their eggs. Endangered sea ...

Out of the thousands of sea turtle hatchlings emerging from the sand and shuffling toward the ocean around Florida, only 40 were leatherbacks from a Sanibel Island clutch laid by their mammoth mama on ...

Female sea turtles lay their eggs, cover the nest with sand and then return to the ocean, leaving them to develop and hatch on their own. Female sea turtles lay their eggs, cover the nest with sand ...

There are seven species of sea turtle alive today, and they are found in oceans all over the world except the Arctic. Many of them travel thousands of miles between the areas where they forage for ...

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 weighs 302 pounds (137 ...

In Cape Verde, conservation has boosted the sea turtle population 100-fold — but the male-female balance is way off.

Each year during the spring and early summer, small turtles nestled below the ripples of Audubon Park Lagoon begin courting, mating and, eventually, nesting. Once their courtship is over, female ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - As sea turtle nesting season gets underway in South Carolina, the South Carolina Aquarium in Charleston is gearing up for stranding season. Stranding season coincides with ...

Kemp's ridley sea turtles, the most endangered sea turtle species, will nest on Texas beaches from April through mid-summer. Beach drivers on Padre Island National Seashore should be cautious during ...

Florida’s 2023 turtle nesting season, which runs from March through October, is only halfway through and has already reached record-breaking numbers for sea turtle nests in Palm Beach County and at ...

A female loggerhead sea turtle was killed after a car hit it on Wednesday, the Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring group said in a social media post. Mote Marine releases a ...