Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea turtles return to the same nesting sites year after year to grow their populations, but rising global temperatures have ...

Sea turtles are the poster animal for plastics pollution in the ocean. There is a reason why they may be so susceptible to becoming caught up in plastic trash. In a new sea turtle behavior study, ...

Turtles, like most critters, instinctively avoid obstacles. Researchers have tapped into this instinct to steer a turtle without sticking probes into its brain or muscles, an achievement that could ...

Biologists are urging beachgoers to be conscientious as sea turtle nesting season carries on throughout the state, as there may be more turtles nesting on the main Hawaiian Islands than there have ...

Specialists with the South Carolina Department of Natural resources discovered two loggerhead nests during beach patrols ...

Caught in an Atlantic hurricane, satellite-tagged loggerhead turtles changed their dive behavior and movement patterns as the storm passed. The tags also recorded changes in the environment. In early ...

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCBD) – Leaders of the Folly Beach Turtle Watch Program say they received two complaints of turtle harassment. They explain that overly enthused spectators often scare the turtles, ...

SHOREVIEW — Something strange is happening at Lake Judy. A band of four people wander the frozen expanse. They're led by a diviner of sorts, a woman with a gizmo that looks vaguely like a flimsy ...

Hundreds of thousands of endangered olive ridley sea turtles come ashore each year to lay eggs in a remarkable show of nature along the eastern coast of the Indian state of Odisha, the largest mass ...

In early June 2011, NOAA Fisheries researchers and colleagues placed satellite tags on 26 loggerhead sea turtles in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. The tagging was part of ongoing studies of loggerhead ...