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 ...

Counting wildlife is a tricky business, especially when the subject of your count has a tendency to swim away every now and ...

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.

PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. (WBTW) — Volunteers with the South Carolina United Turtle Enthusiasts group moved 160 loggerhead turtle eggs in Pawleys Island in Thursday morning. SCUTE head Rick Scott ...

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating after witnesses saw a group of people tampering with a sea turtle nest on Bradenton Beach.