Property owners and tourism industries benefit from protecting sea turtles because all face the same essential challenges, he added. Continued research and education on the need for sea turtle ...

MIAMI — Each March, sea turtle nesting season begins with the females’ slow yet determined scooch onto Florida’s shores, shoveling away sand with her speckled fins, digging a hole to lay eggs.

As the audience cooed over the sea turtles and snapped photos and videos, staff and volunteers carried the marine reptiles down a path between two crowds, like a soul train line, to the sea.

It’s possible that vocalizing in the sea turtle nest could be another signal ... past the powerful waves on the shoreline. Now, they face the open ocean alone. The odds are not in their favour ...

But most of these 1,200 sea turtles were lucky. The wind and currents had carried their motionless bodies ashore, where, at least, they could be found. Last week’s extraordinary storm that ...

Learn more about turtles and tortoises at the Smithsonian's National Zoo and sea turtles at the Smithsonian's Ocean Portal. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Textile Design: Turtle Motif ...

GALVESTON, Texas — More than 40 cold-stunned green sea turtles were released into the ... protected by the Gulf's warmer waters and won't face the risk of cold-stunning again.