Due to being reptiles, many sea turtles can’t strictly regulate their own body temperatures like mammals or birds can. The leatherback sea turtle is the closest in the species to being able to ...

In one tub a green sea turtle struggles with internal organ damage. One floor up, sick, critically endangered hawksbills fill aquariums. Blood seeps from a dying leatherback harpooned by an ...

After tagging olive ridley turtles with flipper tags on the beaches of Ratnagiri, Wildlife Institute of India has accelerated ...

The leatherback sea turtle, the largest of all living turtles, is a remarkable marine animal whose long, slow-motion journey ...

Since sea turtles and iguanas are reptiles, they are not able to strictly regulate their body temperature the way that birds and mammals can. The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea ...

The number of sea turtles washing up on UK beaches has more than doubled in recent years, prompting the creation of the country's first dedicated rehabilitation centre in Brighton. Last year ...

Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long migrations across oceans, they consistently return to the same feeding and ...

When a hatching sea turtle first pokes its head above the sand and scrambles to the sea, a watching child might ask how the turtle knows where to go and how girl turtles know to come back one day ...

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A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest piece of plastic debris reported ingested by the species, researchers said.

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — A green sea turtle that was found more than a mile from the ocean last November is making its way home, The Florida Aquarium officials announced Wednesday. Buckley returns ...