On a warm morning at Matemwe, a small crowd gathers behind a rope barrier as the sand begins to tremble. A tiny head pushes through a soft mound of earth, then another, and another. Within minutes, ...

After more than a century of munching on her favorite foods of romaine lettuce and cactus fruit, beloved Galápagos tortoise ...

A long-delayed beach nourishment project at Croatan Beach is back underway after work was paused earlier this year to protect a sea turtle nest.

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

When the pulse was applied the team found that the turtles danced less, suggesting that they were previously feeling the ...

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

Mote’s Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program (STCRP) recorded a total of 5,735 sea turtle nests along the 35 miles of ...

Explore the scientific breakthrough that reveals how baby sea turtles can navigate vast oceans with the help of magnetic cues ...

Every year, Ana Estrella, Department Chair of Natural and Applied Sciences at Missouri State University-West Plains (MSU-WP), ...

Researchers taught young loggerhead turtles to associate certain magnetic fields with feeding, prompting a distinctive dance ...

Scientists find baby loggerheads feel Earth’s magnetic field to know where they are, reshaping our understanding of sea ...