What’s in a name? When it comes to sea turtles, it turns out, a pretty distinguishing trait. “The animal kingdom is filled ...

When a hatching sea turtle first pokes its head above the sand and scrambles to the sea, a watching child might ask how the turtle knows where to go and how girl turtles know to come back one day ...

Loggerhead sea turtles ( Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long migrations across oceans, they consistently return to the same feeding and nesting ...

The sea turtles, ranging in size from 3 to 35 pounds, were released by the Zoo’s sea turtle team and TAMU Galveston’s Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research.

Sea turtles live in every ocean in the world except for the Arctic regions. There are seven species of sea turtles and six of ...

The City of New Smyrna Beach said Turtle Trackers volunteer Jackie Frymire was enjoying an early morning walk on March 9 when she spotted a leatherback sea turtle covering her eggs on the beach.

A 200-pound green sea turtle named JP Saul was released back into the ocean on Thursday, March 6, after recovering from a ...

Sea turtles are capable of creating GPS-like magnetic maps to guide them back to foraging grounds, and they do a little dance when they recognize those spots ...

A leatherback sea turtle was spotted on New Smyrna Beach, marking the earliest recorded sea turtle nest on County-managed ...

There are nine public opportunities available throughout the Treasure Coast to observe sea turtles during the season.

The turtles emerged from eight to 10 different nests from Bald Head Island, North Carolina ... a research biologist with the Sea Turtle Conservancy via email. Evans was not involved in the ...