Sargassum seaweed is creating major new obstacles for sea turtle hatchlings, drastically slowing their crawl to the ocean and ...

More than half the plastics found in sea turtles were soft types, such as plastic bags And about three-quarters of the ...

Endangered Olive Ridley sea turtles have begun arriving at Gahirmatha marine sanctuary, the world's largest rookery, for ...

The Georgia Sea Turtle Center, the only facility of its kind in the state, has been dedicated to rehabilitating injured sea ...

New research is turning a long‑standing hunch about sea turtles into a detailed map of how these animals read the planet ...

The ocean, blanketing over 70% of the Earth’s surface, is estimated to be home to more than half of all life on our planet.

There's more to South Padre Island than pristine beaches, warm sunshine and that laissez-faire island vibe. The island, ...

Mote Marine Laboratory’s Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program has been monitoring nests along Sarasota County beaches ...

A new study shows that very small amounts of plastic can kill marine animals and that fragments now appear in common foods ...

Loggerhead turtles are able to sense Earth's magnetic field in two ways, but it wasn't clear which sense the animals use to ...

Researchers taught young loggerhead turtles to associate certain magnetic fields with feeding, prompting a distinctive dance ...

Loggerhead hatchlings travel thousands of miles guided by an astonishing built-in navigation system that uses the Earth’s magnetic field. Scientists trained young turtles to “dance” in response to ...