Hatchlings emerge from a nest recently at Harbor Island. Sea turtles have adapted nesting strategies such having 3-5 nests in a season and 120 eggs per nest to ensure that no one storm season is a ...
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (WTVD) -- Town officials on Hilton Head Island tweeted about some exciting news Thursday: the hatching of several critically endangered sea turtles. The Kemp's ridley ...
Blanding's turtles at Des Moines' Blank Park Zoo will grow to be about 4 inches before they are released in the spring of 2025. The Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines, the Iowa Department of Natural ...
PONCE INLET — On an October morning at the Marine Science Center's turtle hospital, Assistant Manager Alyssa Hancock gently tries to place a juvenile green sea turtle atop a scale as it flails its ...
SURF CITY, N.C. (WITN) - Dozens of sea turtles are being treated at the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center after they were cold-stunned. Every winter, turtles head south before ...
In the shallow turquoise waters off the island of Providenciales in Turks and Caicos—a British overseas territory south of the Bahamas—large adult green sea turtles rest on the sandy seafloor, grazing ...
After being lured to the Gulf of Maine’s warming waters to feed, young sea turtles are trapped and cold-stunned as ...
With temperatures rising and tourists returning, one of South Carolina’s favorite reptiles will soon have all four flippers in the sand. One dedicated sea turtle mama got a head start, laying the ...