The Turtles of Western Highway helps turtles who want to cross the road to lay their eggs. About 90 days later, volunteers come out to find the tiny hatchlings and gather them up to get them back to ...

Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle cruising in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean in Hawaii© Shane Myers Photography/Shutterstock.com Green turtles (Chelonia mydas), or ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - Staff with Blank Park Zoo say they’re celebrating after the hatching of 57 Blanding’s turtles, a species that is considered endangered globally. Blanding’s turtles have had ...

Turtle nesting season is upon us, so we thought this was a good time to reveal the secret nesting ritual of sea turtles that ...

Blanding's turtles at Des Moines' Blank Park Zoo will grow to be about 4 inches before they are released in the spring of 2025. The Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, the Iowa Department of Natural ...

For millions of years, sea turtles have crossed vast oceans, survived changing climates, and quietly shaped marine ecosystems ...

Recently hatched Kemp’s ridley sea turtles have been washing back up onto Coastal Bend beaches in greater numbers than usual, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Almost 30 post-hatchlings ...

As Hurricane Erin pelted North Carolina’s barrier islands with strong winds and waves this week, it destroyed many nests of threatened sea turtles, burying the eggs deep in sand or washing them out to ...

As Hurricane Erin pelted North Carolina’s barrier islands with strong winds and waves this week, it destroyed many nests of threatened sea turtles, burying the eggs deep in sand or washing them out to ...

For 43 years, the green sea turtle carried one of conservation's heaviest labels: endangered. Poaching gutted nesting ...

Baby sea turtles respond even more to fluctuating precipitation than to changes in air temperature during their development in the egg. The effects of precipitation differ depending on the species—or ...