Maryland's Department of Natural Resources is asking Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic coast visitors to be vigilant ...

As morning light spread across Nantucket Sound on Wednesday, staff from the New England Aquarium released 17 endangered and threatened sea turtles back into the ocean after months of medical care. The ...

MARATHON, Fla. – This week’s Don’t Trash Our Treasure has a concerning update on Florida sea turtles. Though nesting numbers are up, adult turtles continue to face threats due to human pressure.

Hundreds of frozen endangered sea turtles wash up on the shores of the East Coast every year as ocean temperatures plummet ...

Nineteen endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles named for Taylor Swift songs finished their ‘recovery era’ and were released back into the wild on Wednesday. The Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, one of the ...

MANTEO, NC (WWAY) — Over 160 cold-stunned sea turtles are being rehabilitated at the Sea Turtle Assistance and Rehabilitation Center (S.T.A.R.) by the N.C. Aquarium on Roanoke Island. The aquarium ...

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 ...

Requiem’s flapping flippers almost sounded like bird wings fluttering as Morgan Flannagan, a Georgia Sea Turtle Center hospital technician, pulled the green sea turtle from a rehabilitation tank.

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies (IMMS) released three turtles back into the Mississippi Sound. All three turtles were nursed back to health after being accidentally ...

Sea turtles have been around for millions of years. They are a hardy species that not only survived but thrived after the last mass extinction event. Today, however, many of the remaining seven ...

Scientists in Georgia are using DNA from one egg per sea turtle nest to track ancestry and migration patterns. Human activities, such as leaving trash on beaches and disturbing nests, can negatively ...