Sea turtles have long and complex lives; they can live into their 70s or 80s and they famously return to their birthplace to nest. But new research suggests this isn’t the only big migration in ...

2024 Tour de Turtles, hardshell race results. (Sea Turtle Conservancy) This year, Disney tracked two new nesting sea turtles, and Ebb — Disney Conservation’s sponsored turtle — has won the race.

The Sanibel Captiva Conservation Foundation is tracking five sea turtles to study their behavior in the Gulf of Mexico, and ...

“Thus, sea turtles rely on thermal cues to both select (or avoid) habitats and initiate long-distance movements,” the study pointed out. Years ago “it was hard to imagine a juvenile sea turtle ...

Are they part of a more complex sea-turtle migration dynamic than we ever imagined, ... Green sea turtles, which can grow to 5 feet long and weigh more than 500 pounds, ...

Sea turtles are known for the amazing migrations they make, swimming long ocean distances to return to their birthplace to hatch their young. Yet it turns out these beloved marine reptiles make ...

Sea turtles are expert navigators and often migrate thousands of miles between feeding grounds and nesting beaches.🐢 Here a female has come ashore to lay her eggs.🥚 Once her 80-150 eggs ...

Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to specific areas after long migrations.

For years, people have known that leatherback sea turtles weighing as much as 800 pounds make forays into New England waters, but an exhaustive four-year tagging project has for the first time ...

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