Slow and steady wins the race. It’s a sentiment that has shadowed turtles for years, and perhaps, for good reason. Turtles are slow, but wise. Sea turtles, however, are nothing short of amazing. Sea ...

Demographic information is critical for interpreting abundance trends. Demography refers to the key vital rates or parameters, such as breeding, survival, and dispersal rates. As a concrete example, ...

A loggerhead turtle who judging by his size and barnacles on his shell is old. The turtle is cruising the reef during mating season looking for a partner© Drew McArthur/Shutterstock.com The ocean can ...

MAYPORT, Fla. – With sea turtle nesting season underway, advocates are encouraging beachgoers to protect the creatures. Naval Station Mayport is preparing to have between 20 to 30 sea turtle nests by ...

Conservation organizations are employing Cabo Verdeans, who formerly hunted endangered and threatened sea turtles, as rangers who now monitor and patrol beaches. From 2007-24, illegal catches of ...

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

Preliminary counts show roughly 6,600 nests along Palm Beach’s Atlantic shoreline this season. The majority of nests belonged to loggerhead sea turtles. The 2025 sea turtle nesting season ran from ...