Endangered leatherback turtles are also impacted by the destruction of nesting beaches due to coastal development and rising sea levels. Efforts under the Endangered Species Act and global sea ...

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

It's been a shell game, but we'll persist until turtles are no longer drowning in commercial fishing gear. Saving loggerhead sea turtles also means ensuring that they have the protections afforded to ...

she returns to the sea, her job done. But for the millions of eggs that are now incubating under the sand, the journey is just beginning. They may be loners as adults, but olive ridley turtles ...

A top conservation body has sent out an SOS that almost half the world’s “most threatened sea turtle populations” are found in the northern Indian Ocean, with key nesting sites for some of them being ...

A female green sea turtle was killed on Wednesday related to a poaching incident which resulted in the arrest of two men.

the California Fish and Game Commission voted 5-0 to advance leatherbacks to candidacy under the state’s Endangered Species Act, giving them some protections. Finally, in 2021 the California ...

While all other sea turtles have hard, bony shells, the inky-blue carapace of the leatherback is somewhat flexible and almost rubbery to the touch. Ridges along the carapace help give it a more ...

While sea turtles can recover quickly from brief exposures ... they’re given subcutaneous fluids, which are injected under the skin. Blood is drawn to check their blood sugar levels, Terry ...

The shells of the hawksbill sea turtle have been used for luxury items for centuries, but with the species now endangered, new technology is pinpointing where protections are needed most By Alex ...