The ocean can be an extremely dangerous place, even for an animal that migrates through and rides its currents for decades.

Every year, hundreds of loggerheads, Kemp’s ridleys, greens, and other sea turtle species wash ashore on Massachusetts beaches, mostly along the coast of Cape Cod Bay. Stranding season peaks in late ...

New research shows that turtles are responding to climate change by nesting earlier. Researchers monitoring nesting green and loggerhead turtles in Cyprus have discovered they are returning to their ...

Warmer oceans and depleting food have affected the ubiquitous loggerhead turtle’s reproductive and migratory patterns — and even its size.

A 17-year study shows that warmer oceans and falling food supply are causing sea turtles to nest earlier but lay fewer eggs.

When a hatching sea turtle first pokes its head above the sand and scrambles to the sea, a watching child might ask how the turtle knows where to go and how girl turtles know to come back one day to a ...

Scientists in Georgia are using DNA from one egg per sea turtle nest to track ancestry and migration patterns. Human activities, such as leaving trash on beaches and disturbing nests, can negatively ...

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCSC) - Trained volunteers have spotted the season’s first sea turtle nest a few days earlier than normal, the Department of Natural Resources says. The volunteers, with the Folly ...

All six species of sea turtles found in U.S. waters are listed as endangered or threatened, but the exact population sizes of these species are unknown due to a lack of key information regarding birth ...