Warming sand temperatures are causing a higher ratio of female sea turtle hatchlings. Scientists have lacked a reliable method to count male sea turtles until a recent breakthrough. A new technique ...
As Michael Bay’s new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles adaptation gets set to hit theaters – only seven years after the last such film – audiences are left gawking at the rather monstrous new forms for the ...
Green sea turtle populations are already becoming increasingly female due to a warming climate. Now pollution may also be contributing to unbalanced sex ratios in the species. The new findings, ...
Climate change is having an unexpected and slightly jarring effect on the Florida sea turtle population: it’s skewing baby turtles mostly female. Rising atmospheric temperatures are causing the sand ...
SARASOTA, Fla. — Each morning during sea turtle nesting season, which occurs between May 1 and Oct. 31, scientists and citizen volunteers comb 35 miles of shoreline in Sarasota County, Fla. They look ...
Monitoring the populations of one of nature’s slower creatures could become faster, thanks to the University of Georgia. UGA researchers have developed an easier, more cost effective way to learn more ...
This nesting season, researchers will begin to track the long-elusive male sea turtles, which could be dwindling globally. Since 2010, scientists have been able to track female loggerhead sea turtles ...