Young sea turtles actively swim and choose their paths instead of drifting. New satellite tracking reveals their movements.

For decades, scientists have wondered about what happens during the so-called lost years between when tiny hatchlings leave ...

GALVESTON, Texas -- At the Gulf Center of Sea Turtle Research, dozens of sea turtles are being nursed to health. The center's ...

A small team of archaeologists, geologists, paleontologists and climate scientists has found that at least one type of ...

Albrittain also told us, “Often, when sea turtles are cold stunned, their GI gets impacted, because everything stops moving ...

The Gulf Specimen Aquarium released two cold-stunned turtles just a few weeks after the freezing cold temperatures ...

In a moment of triumph for marine conservation, Clearwater Marine Aquarium (CMA) successfully released six rehabilitated sea ...

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

We've put them at risk, but with a little help, they're rebounding. Green sea turtles congregate near a dock in the Bahamas. They were so numerous during Columbus’s day that “it seemed the ...

But most of these 1,200 sea turtles were lucky. The wind and currents had carried their motionless bodies ashore, where, at least, they could be found. Last week’s extraordinary storm that ...

Turtles can be found anywhere, from local ponds and the deep, blue sea to an aquarium tank in your bedroom. These aquatic, semiaquatic or terrestrial creatures are easily recognized thanks to ...