Sea turtles can become cold-stunned when water temperature drops below 50° Fahrenheit. Cold-stunning, which can be ...

There are many threats to sea turtles, but most of them come from humans. Dangers may range from getting entangled in fishing gear to losing their habitats from beach erosion and human development.

Dilly Dally, a loggerhead turtle who survived a run-in with a predator that ultimately cost her a front flipper, has been released from a Florida animal hospital back into the Atlantic Ocean. "No ...

Little kids giddily squeal as a baby sea turtle, flippers flapping, lurches toward the water with the grace of a drunk lunging for a cab at closing time. Tourists applaud as about a dozen more ...

EMERALD ISLE, N.C. (WNCT) — It is now peak sea turtle hatching season along the North Carolina coast. Nests can have anywhere from 80 to 120 eggs, and once hatched, the baby turtles must make their ...

There are seven species of sea turtle alive today, and they are found in oceans all over the world except the Arctic. Many of them travel thousands of miles between the areas where they forage for ...

Leatherback turtle Riptide stunned researchers after completing a rare 7,000-mile migration from Panama to the North Atlantic ...

Recently hatched Kemp’s ridley sea turtles have been washing back up onto Coastal Bend beaches in greater numbers than usual, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Almost 30 post-hatchlings ...