Climate change is skewing turtle populations by altering hatchling sex ratios. Explore how temperature affects turtles, why ...

Forensic scientists aren’t the only ones using fingerprints to solve mysteries. Marine biologists have also begun “fingerprinting” baby leatherback sea turtles to gather clues about their life history ...

Most sea turtle populations are rebounding around the world, researchers said this week. That promising news comes even amid continuing man-made threats to the beloved marine reptiles, including ...

There are seven species of sea turtle alive today, and they are found in oceans all over the world except the Arctic. Many of them travel thousands of miles between the areas where they forage for ...

Sea turtles have been swimming the world’s oceans for 100 million years, but today their future is precarious. Sea turtles can get caught in the nets of the global fishing industry, are hunted for ...

Sea turtles lay their eggs into the beach sand. Many return to the exact beaches that they were hatched to lay the eggs for the next generation of turtles. But sea level rise due to climate change ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter. In the middle of a steamy July night on the Wassaw Island beach, near Savannah, Georgia, volunteer Gabi Steinbach ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Hundreds of sea turtles have washed up on Southwest Florida beaches this year in a mass mortality event that researchers say will impact the recovery of the protected species.

Warming waters off the S.C. coast have already lured some of the state’s most recognizable visitors. While sea turtle nesting season in South Carolina began Friday, turtles have been spotted in state ...

MELBOURNE, Fla. – Last week, rough waves and heavy winds pushed dense sargassum seaweed onto Florida beaches, trapping hundreds of sea turtle hatchlings. [WATCH: Heavy Winds and rough seas push ...