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 ...

A new scientific study has found that large-scale beach nourishment was associated with significant changes in sea turtle nesting behavior.

Ask any herpetologist, Are Turtles Social Animals?, and you’ll get a pretty straightforward No answer from nearly all of them. These ancient reptiles have been around for more than 200 million years, ...

From the 1800s through the 1950s, people clamored for the delicacy green turtle soup. Though the color describes the hue of the soup, one turtle commonly used for the dish – the Chelonia mydas – has ...

BACKYARD. LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER TAGGING THEIR FIRST EVER AMPUTEE SEA TURTLE FOR A BRAND NEW STUDY. THEY WANT TO SEE HOW TURTLES BEHAVE ONCE THEY’RE RELEASED AFTER REHAB. FIRST WARNING ...

Biology researchers from the College of Sciences’ UCF Marine Turtle Research Group studied the dispersal movements of four juvenile sea turtle species, revealing that they may be active swimmers, ...