The leatherback sea turtle, the largest of all living turtles, is a remarkable marine animal whose long, slow-motion journey ...

TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. — A green sea turtle that was found more than a mile from the ocean last November is making its way home, The Florida Aquarium officials announced Wednesday. Buckley returns ...

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest piece of plastic debris reported ingested by the species, researchers said.

The leatherback sea turtle is the closest in the species to being able to replicate this function thanks to multiple physiological adaptations, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Pic: SEA LIFE Brighton Of the seven species of sea turtle, three are classified as endangered, with two of those, Hawksbills and Kemp's Ridleys, being critically endangered. In response ...

When a hatching sea turtle first pokes its head above the sand and scrambles to the sea, a watching child might ask how the turtle knows where to go and how girl turtles know to come back one day ...

The leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) does have a few physiological adaptations that come closest to this kind of thermoregulation. For other turtle species, body temperature is ...

In one tub a green sea turtle struggles with internal organ damage. One floor up, sick, critically endangered hawksbills fill aquariums. Blood seeps from a dying leatherback harpooned by an ...

County beach patrols rescued and delivered these cold-stunned sea turtles to the Sea Turtle Hospital at the University of Florida's Whitney Laboratory in double digits. Devon Ramia, Whitney’s ...