The shell of an adult hawksbill sea turtle consists of about a dozen overlapping scales colored with streaks of gold, brown, orange, and red. Hawksbills have long been hunted for their shells—the ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. Globally distributed ...

The Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) is one of the seven species of marine turtles and one of six in the family Cheloniidae. It is easily distinguished from other turtle species by its ...

Yes, this sea turtle is glowing neon green and red. No, it's not radioactive. The critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle is the first reptile scientists have seen exhibiting biofluorescence—the ...

Costa Rican marine biologist Ariana Oporta-McCarthy grew up close to where a critically-endangered turtle nests: now she's helping to save it. Over the last 200 years, the Hawksbill turtle ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. For centuries, hawksbill sea turtles have returned to a shoreline in the eastern Philippines to lay their eggs, even as the human community has ...

Hawksbill turtles are due for a status assessment on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. One of the largest threats to global hawksbill recovery is the continued illegal tortoiseshell trade in ...