Just as they have for millions of years, sea turtles by the thousands made their labored crawl from the ocean to U.S. beaches to lay their eggs over the past several months. This year, record ...

A rarely-seen leatherback sea turtle washed up dead on the northern Outer Banks last week.

An exciting increase in sea turtle nests was recorded during the 2024 season along Pinellas County beaches, according to the ...

We can expect to see hatchlings from these nests in mid to late July.” A false crawl occurs “when a sea turtle comes ashore to lay eggs but returns to the water without depositing them due to ...

Sea turtles, it appears ... Leatherback hatchlings encounter plastic bottles and other debris as they crawl across Trinidad’s Matura Beach to reach the ocean. Nature Seekers, a local ...

From the busy cities to ocean waters, our need to illuminate the world has had some strange and tragic consequences ...

Over the past 25 years, researchers counting the leatherbacks that crawl out to nest on tropical ... says Scott Eckert of the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network at Duke University.

That so much effort has been poured into saving green sea turtles may have something to do with the devotion of proponents, who (with the barest prodding) will wax poetic on the beauty and mystery of ...

Around noon on Monday, Nov. 4, NEST (Network for Endangered Sea Turtles) posted this announcement.

“Oftentimes, a sea turtle that underwent a surgery would stop bleeding as ... about the hatchlings’ emergence and orientation behaviors, and their swim and crawl speed. She was also interested in ...

Most importantly, these lights confuse the baby turtle hatchlings. Instead of going into the sea, they would crawl to the lit areas, and get stranded on the beach, exposed to attack by predators, and ...

Most importantly, these lights confuse the baby turtle hatchlings. Instead of going into the sea, they would crawl to the lit areas, and get stranded on the beach, exposed to attack by predators ...