Scientists recently made a concerning discovery in the reproductive systems of male sea turtles: high concentrations of microplastics. Now, researchers worry these tiny plastic particles could ...

“If sea turtles get cold, they start to shut down external parts of their body,” Marks said. “If they get too cold, eventually everything will shut down, and the turtle will drown.” While the turtles ...

“The sea turtle’s unique body shape, the morphology of their flippers ... Ozkan-Aydin broke down sea turtles’ evolutionary design into a few key parts: an oval-shaped frame, four ...

to sea turtles that can travel thousands of miles to lay eggs on the very beaches where they were born. Then there are the cleverly deceptive snapping turtles, which can have body parts shaped ...

and the scales overlap each other all over the body. This creates an extremely strong and durable layer of skin. This layer makes it difficult for jellyfish to sting a sea turtle, as they cannot ...

By Derrick Bryson Taylor As the calendar tiptoes toward winter and water temperatures in parts ... Press Sea turtles are coldblooded and lack the ability to regulate their body temperature.

Endangered sea turtles show signs of recovery in a majority of places where they’re found worldwide, according to a new global survey released Thursday. “Many of the turtle populations have ...

Plummeting temperatures across New England are ushering in another season of cold-weather struggles for the region's sea turtles ... months. Turtles are reptiles, so their internal body ...

Turtle hospitals and aquariums across the country are caring for sea turtles that stranded on beaches during the winter season, which is now coming to a close amid an uptick in strandings along ...

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 ...

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