For the team at the Florida Panhandle Marine Institute, days like this never get old. Indy and Kite, two patients with two ...

New research is revealing that baby sea turtles do not simply drift on ocean currents during their first epic journey.

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 ...

A new study details the loggerheads’ ability to “map” their position by using the Earth’s magnetic field, with possible ...

A group of researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill published a new study that explores how turtles navigate the ocean. The team found that loggerhead turtles can map the ocean by recognizing magnetic ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SUNSET BEACH, N.C. (WNCN) — As the weather ...

(CNN) — Sea turtles are renowned for their incredible migrations, traveling thousands of miles across vast oceans with few visible landmarks. Now, a new study, published Wednesday in the journal ...

The ocean is awash with plastic— more than 171 trillion pieces, scientists have estimated, and growing all the time. Animals ...

If you’re visiting Pensacola Beach over the next few days, there’s a chance you might stumble upon a seemingly immobile sea turtle washed up on the shore due to the recent cold weather in the ...

Dropping temperatures are affecting everybody... including New York's sea turtle population. Here's how to help ...

Scientists analyzed thousands of autopsies of seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals and found that even small amounts of ...

While both belong to the same scientific order (Testudines), they’ve evolved in unique ways depending on where they live and ...