Flatback turtles can grow up to one metre long and weigh up to 90kg. Turtles don’t start breeding until they are between 10 to 30 years, so it is too early to tell if Cronulla is a male or female.

Most flatback turtle research focussed on when the animals were accessible while nesting on a beach, which only represented 0.5 per cent of their life.

Flatback marine turtles have been difficult to study since they share much of their habitat with saltwater crocodiles. The world’s largest reptile not only preys on the marine turtle, ...

Flatback turtle carcasses can be hard to find as crocodiles and sharks eat them. (Supplied: James Gee, DBCA) The study will allow researchers to determine how much data they need to measure ...

Flatback turtle first. I look up over the wind-whipped peaks of water and signal frantically to Doug using our agreed ‘T for turtle’ arm movement. He is 50m further out lugging the photographic ...

It's confirmed: Even though flatback turtles dine on fish, shrimp, and mollusks, they are closely related to primarily herbivorous green sea turtles. New genetic research carried out by Eugenia ...

Loggerhead sea turtles return to the place of their birth on Jekyll Island in Georgia each year to lay eggs along the sandy ...

For green turtles in the Pacific Ocean, from 0% to 0.9% of the total body mass was ingested plastic, and from 0% to 2% for flatback turtles in the Indian Ocean. The types of plastic also varied ...

The others are hawksbill, Kemp’s ridley, leatherback, loggerhead, the olive ridley and the flatback. Sea turtles have certain traits that help them live in the sea.

Don't miss out on the headlines from Bundaberg. Followed categories will be added to My News. The female flatback is about 43 years old and was first tagged while she was nesting in 1994 at Mon ...

Finally, some good news: endangered sea turtles are recovering because ome conservation efforts seem to be working. A paper published earlier this month in Inter-Research Science Publisher reveals ...

Rather than fleeing or recoiling, the flatback turtle turns its head towards the approaching shark and takes a series of aggressive biting lunges towards its attacker.