Hatchlings emerge from a nest recently at Harbor Island. Sea turtles have adapted nesting strategies such having 3-5 nests in a season and 120 eggs per nest to ensure that no one storm season is a ...

Turtle shells evolved over the course of 300 million years, but self-defense wasn't the initial driver, researchers think. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A Turtle Hospital staffer observes Aubie, a loggerhead turtle that was found Thursday, Oct. 17, 2023, in distress at a Florida Keys resort with a spear through its head. The Turtle Hospital ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND — To spend the morning with the Sea Turtle Patrol is to undergo a master class not only in reptile habits, but in vocabulary. What the patrol is looking for is a body pit, said ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — It has been another successful spring for John Ball Zoo’s conservation team. Zoo officials announced Wednesday that their conservation team has released 24 Eastern box ...

Note to the person who took the head of a dead leatherback turtle from a Milford beach: The Peabody Museum of Natural History has a use for it, but you don't. At 8 p.m. last Wednesday, the body was ...

BALD HEAD ISLAND, N.C. (WTVD) -- A unique program on the North Carolina coast is working to restore the sea turtle population, especially Loggerheads, the main species seen in the state. According to ...

BALD HEAD ISLAND, N.C. (WECT) - Bald Head Island had a rare visitor on Wednesday - a Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle. “The sea turtle patrol team got a call about a daytime nesting sea turtle, which is rare, ...

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is hoping to give a claw up to one of Iowa’s most elusive — and most threatened — turtle species by head-starting two Blanding’s turtle hatchlings at the ...

A 260 million-year-old fossil has been determined to be the oldest ancestor of turtles found to date, revealing something about the reptile's mysterious past. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, ...