The sea turtle is one of the ocean’s most fascinating, ancient, and distinguished reptiles, renowned for its vital role in the marine ecosystem. With seven distinct species, sea turtles inhabit every ...

JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Georgia’s hospital for sick and injured sea turtles is holding online lessons for children. The Georgia Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island has been streaming live educational ...

First-grader Nicole Salomon crouched down on her knees and peered into a glass window. Within moments she was face to face with a 305-pound loggerhead turtle recovering from a shell wound at the South ...

In the ocean, tossing like a troubled conscience in the dark, nameless and anonymous. Somehow he is delivered onto a white beach. Beyond the gray rocks is a green forest. He climbs a hill and ...

The third-graders cheered as they urged 13 terrapins — ranging in size from a half-dollar to a hamburger — on their way to a watery finish line at Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center in Queen Anne’s ...

Hayley Fier and Mary Beth Waltman join Coast Live with Bruiser, an eastern box turtle, for a lesson about turtles and their ...