Loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings are being drawn miles inland, where they risk falling to predators or dying from exhaustion ...

This nesting season is happening while Pinellas County starts its beach renourishment project. And the lasting effects from ...

South Carolina’s loggerhead sea turtles are swimming to the Grand Strand’s shores, laying their eggs near the sand dunes, and ...

The 10-year project began in 2019, although the zoo was releasing turtles before that and has freed around 3,000 of them over ...

The eastern box turtle is celebrating 30 years as the most highly honored reptile in the Great Smoky Mountains. Here's how it won that status.

Being so hard to spot is something of a problem for the scientists trying to keep track of their numbers, and that in turn is ...

In hot weather, they stay cool under logs, mud, or leaves ... with females typically laying only about four or five eggs each ...

Morrell and his team estimated that over 2,000 sea turtles have been lost to raccoon predation. Raccoons are the natural predators of sea turtle eggs and are native to the ecosystem.

SANIBEL, Fla. (WFLA) — A family photo session captured a rare occurrence when a sea turtle emerged out of the water to photobomb. The photos, taken by Brooke Benjamin with B + A Coastal Photo ...

Man charged with destroying turtle nests, days after posting bond for robbery The man now faces two counts of destroying and molesting a turtle nest.

The report includes two seizures in Mexico that rescued a total of 29,502 mud turtles and musk turtles in 2020.

Turtles typically lay their eggs about a foot below the surface of the sand somewhere about halfway between the beach’s shoreline and the dunes, according to Loggerhead researcher Sarah Hirsch.