It was a tough year for threatened sea turtles on Fort Myers Beach, whose nests experienced significant hardships from three hurricanes and other heavy rainfall events. While 109 nests were identified ...

By 2024, this trend had strengthened, with increases occurring six times more often than declines. Four out of five regional green sea turtle populations are growing, and loggerhead nesting sites have ...

sea turtle legs hold up the sky. We turn to them for healing: Turtle meat in West Africa was once believed to fight leprosy, and bathing in a broth of loggerhead plastron, the bony undershell ...

Loggerhead turtles are carnivorous, feeding mostly on shellfish, crabs, sea urchins and jellyfish in coral reefs, bays and estuaries. Ms Gatley said the new breeding turtles were likely hatchlings ...

Twenty cold-stunned juvenile green turtles rescued from the frigid waters off Florida’s east coast are receiving care at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital.

Scientists Solve the Mystery of Sea Turtles' 'Lost Years' WASHINGTON (AP) — Using satellite trackers, scientists have discovered the whereabouts of young sea turtles during a key part of their ...

This photo provided by researchers shows a young green sea turtle released with a satellite tag swimming in sargassum seaweed offshore of Venice, La., on June 2, 2015. The photo was made with ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Hundreds of cold-stunned turtles were pulled from the Gulf last month during a rare winter storm. On Tuesday, two of those turtles returned to the water. Neptune and ...

Annual and seasonal average sea surface temperature (SST) maps are available for the Australian region. Long-term averages have been calculated over the standard 30-year period 1961-1990. A 30-year ...