The first public Kemp's ridley sea turtle hatchling release of the season is scheduled for June 14 at Padre Island National Seashore. Thousands of beachgoers attend hatchling releases each summer at ...

Slow and steady wins the race. It’s a sentiment that has shadowed turtles for years, and perhaps, for good reason. Turtles ...

A baby green turtle (left) and a baby loggerhead (right) were excavated by conservationists at the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center. The sun has yet to peek its way through the clouds on this windy ...

Scientists estimate the odds of a baby sea turtle surviving ... a crucial refuge for olive ridley, green and hawksbill and other critically endangered sea turtles. The nest raiders planned to ...

In the wake of Hurricane Ian, the Brevard Zoo in Florida is caring for hundreds of baby sea turtles that were brought there in the storm’s aftermath. The zoo announced on Saturday that its Sea ...

Leatherback eggs incubate for about 70 days, while loggerhead and green sea turtle eggs take roughly 50 days to hatch. Photograph by Tiffany Dawson, University of Central Florida, Permitted ...

A baby green sea turtle rescued from a Sydney beach had consumed so many plastic fragments that it took six days for the hatchling to excrete it all out, according to a wildlife hospital.

A baby turtle hatchling making its way across ... Florida is home to five different species of sea turtles: green turtles, loggerheads, hawksbill, Kemp's ridley and leatherbacks.

The baby had just survived an encounter with a seagull, who dropped the hatchling, allowing it to continue crawling into the water. Albino green sea turtles have a 1 in 100,000 chance of being born.

From baby green sea turtles who must navigate sandy beaches to reach the sea when born, to that humble loner the domestic cat. Watch as we count down our top 10 most independent baby animals on ...

[Related: Endangered green turtles are bouncing back in the Seychelles.] When baby green sea turtles hatch on the beaches of the Mediterranean Sea, they clumsily make their way into the ocean.

The zoo announced on Saturday that its Sea Turtle Healing Center was helping more than 200 baby sea turtles, which included species such as green, loggerhead and hawksbill. The Sea Turtle ...