India's olive ridley turtle numbers appear to have rebounded after years of patchwork efforts to stem their decline. Can it ...

Sargassum seaweed is creating major new obstacles for sea turtle hatchlings, drastically slowing their crawl to the ocean and ...

As sand temperatures continue to rise, concerns about the future of sea turtles are growing. Hotter nests not only skew sex ratios—producing more females—but also reduce hatchling survival, slow ...

Every year, sea turtles hatch on Florida’s beaches and make their way from the sand to the ocean – a critical journey that determines their chances of survival. As these hatchlings navigate obstacles ...

This year saw more 1,366 more sea turtle nests on local beaches than last year, including some incubating into November.

A leatherback sea turtle hatchling climbs over sargassum on a beach. In a new study, researchers timed sea turtles to see how long it took them to reach the ocean when they had to traverse piles of ...

On the wind-swept sands of Teewah Beach in Queensland, Australia, a fragile pattern emerged at dawn—tiny, barely perceptible ...

CAPE LOOKOUT, N.C. (WNCN) — Activity at the North Carolina coast is heating up — especially on the beach along the sand to the surf. The first turtle nest hatched late last week at the Outer Banks, ...

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 to a ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is sharing the reminder that beachgoers can help nesting sea turtles and their emerging hatchlings, along with shorebirds and flightless ...

Two entities with the same goal are sparring with each other. Tensions are rising between turtle rescue organizations and the Florida Wildlife Commission that oversees their work – so much so that the ...

Hatchlings were trained to associate a food reward with a specific pattern such as a bullseye at the end of a Y-maze. In the reversal phase, the reward was switched to a different pattern, requiring ...