French Polynesia has announced the creation of the world’s largest marine protected area. Speaking on the first day of the ...

(Related: Where are all the male sea turtles going?) They outlasted the dinosaurs, but “no turtle has time to evolve to avoid being killed on a road,” says Whit Gibbons, emeritus professor of ...

From Alabama to Oklahoma, these are the Most Treasured Views across the South. Explore this bucket list for your summer ...

From Alabama to Oklahoma, these are the Most Treasured Views across the South. Explore this bucket list for your summer travel plans.

However, marine animals are often overlooked. All animals can be reservoirs of plastic pollution, but to understand just how much ocean plastic pollution is stored in ocean life, we used sea turtles ...

Hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata), which typically feed on sponges in coral reef environments, often encounter microplastics embedded in their food sources. Research shows that even ...

There are many threats to sea turtles, but most of them come from humans. Dangers may range from getting entangled in fishing gear to losing their habitats from beach erosion and human development.

Texas A&M University will construct a new sea turtle rehabilitation hospital at its Galveston campus - and it will be open around 2027 for visitors to meet "turtle ambassadors" and watch ...

Green Sea Turtle, and Hawksbill Sea Turtle,” Tautho said. A race for survival. Over 60 sea turtle hatchlings race to the sea after their release from the enclosure built to protect them from predators ...

Rays and sharks can turn neon green, while nearby coral come alive in electric reds. And hawksbill sea turtles? Under ultraviolet light, they turn into glow-in-the-dark, underwater Christmas ...

This turtle had a lucky escape, but each year, turtles are killed by fishing line entanglement. The team managed to locate and rescue the mature green sea turtle that was hooked in the mouth, and the ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A massive loggerhead sea turtle hit by a boat off Florida’s Atlantic coast arrived at a turtle hospital needing medical care, but at 302 pounds (137 kilograms ...