Watch your step on the beaches near Jupiter: Loggerhead Marinelife Center is predicting that 2025 will be a top-three year for sea turtle nestings. So far this season, the nonprofit conservation ...

We now revere and protect our sea turtles. But you may remember the sad part of history when sailors near coastal areas would catch sea turtles coming to shore to lay eggs and they took them back to ...

As the approaching Hurricane Erin brought heavy surf and dune-chewing waves crashing ashore all along the N.C. coast, emergency officials warned beachgoers to stay out of the water and, preferably, ...

There are many threats to sea turtles, but most of them come from humans. Dangers may range from getting entangled in fishing gear to losing their habitats from beach erosion and human development.

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. – We had a really special moment on The Morning Show today. Dozens of sea turtle hatchlings in Fernandina Beach decided to make their way to the ocean as our cameras were ...

PANACEA, Fla. (WCTV) - The prolonged cold in the Big Bend is causing a crisis for local sea life. The Gulf Specimen Marine Lab is now taking in hundreds of cold-stunned sea turtles. As temperatures in ...

Along Florida’s Atlantic shoreline, where sea turtles return each year to nest on sandy beaches, an unusual veterinary case has drawn attention. Pennywise, a massive female loggerhead sea turtle ...

CROW, a wildlife hospital on Sanibel Island, Florida, is rebuilding its sea turtle complex destroyed by Hurricane Ian. The Harkey Sea Turtle Complex, the only facility of its kind between Sarasota and ...

Slow and steady wins the race. It’s a sentiment that has shadowed turtles for years, and perhaps, for good reason. Turtles are slow, but wise. Sea turtles, however, are nothing short of amazing. Sea ...

Conservation organizations are employing Cabo Verdeans, who formerly hunted endangered and threatened sea turtles, as rangers who now monitor and patrol beaches. From 2007-24, illegal catches of ...

While some washover can be beneficial, nests inundated after hatching can drown the baby turtles. Volunteers and organizations are working to protect and rescue surviving hatchlings. Sea turtles face ...