That promising news comes even amid continuing man-made threats to the beloved marine reptiles, including climate change, ...

Leatherbacks are the largest turtles on Earth ... is rapidly declining in many parts of the world. While all other sea turtles have hard, bony shells, the inky-blue carapace of the leatherback ...

Earlier this week, 34 turtles made history in the state of Georgia. On Wednesday, conservationists and marine biologists ...

Weighing up to 700 pounds green turtles are among the largest sea turtles in the world. Their proportionally small head, which is nonretractable, extends from a heart-shaped carapace that measures ...

After we twice sued to compel a response from the National Marine Fisheries Service, in 2012 the agency granted the turtle 40,000 square miles of critical habitat off California, Oregon and Washington ...

Sea Turtle Incorporated celebrated Saturday the grand opening on South Padre Island of the world’s largest fully enclosed sea turtle hospital. A ribbon-cutting ceremony at midday officially ...

Between October 2020 and February 2021, 18 nests of leatherback turtles – which can grow up to 400 kilograms as an adult and are the largest species of sea turtles – were found in Phuket.