Families, children and spectators stood along the Galveston shore with wide smiles and loud cheers as they watched volunteers carry 102 sea turtles, one by one, into the Gulf on Thursday afternoon.

Each fall in Costa Rica, one of nature's strangest spectacles takes place–a tsunami of sea turtles. Each fall, a remote stretch of volcanic sand in Costa Rica transforms into one of nature’s greatest ...

A new study found sea turtle scutes can archive their lives and hold clues to lasting impacts from damaging red tides and ...

Sea turtle nesting season is here which means Treasure Coast residents need to be conscious of how they act on the beach. More than 100,000 sea turtles nest on Florida beaches every year, making up ...

Florida's Brevard County is a vital nursery for sea turtles. Learn how volunteers and the Brevard Zoo help protect them.

A loggerhead turtle who judging by his size and barnacles on his shell is old. The turtle is cruising the reef during mating season looking for a partner© Drew McArthur/Shutterstock.com The ocean can ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — Three rehabilitated green sea turtles were released into the ocean on Tuesday after months of care at the South Carolina Aquarium, marking the aquarium’s first sea turtle ...

Carole Allen — founder of HEART (Help Endangered Animals Ridley Turtles) and the first director of the Turtle Island Restoration Network’s Gulf of Mexico office — passed away at the age of 90. For ...

A sea turtle’s shell is living bone fused directly to its spine and ribs. It is not a detachable shield or an external case, as certain quirky cartoons have shown. The shell grows with the turtle, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A green sea turtle named Meatloaf is recovering at Aquarium of the Pacific after being rescued from the San ...