A loggerhead sea turtle who spent 3 months in rehabilitation following an attack that left her without her left fin has returned to the ocean. The Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, Fla., ...

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, ...

JEKYLL ISLAND, Ga. – For almost 20 years, the Georgia Sea Turtle Center has restored the health of injured sea turtles and educated the public. The state’s only center of its kind draws thousands of ...

Demographic information is critical for interpreting abundance trends. Demography refers to the key vital rates or parameters, such as breeding, survival, and dispersal rates. As a concrete example, ...

Sea turtle named after WLOX reporter returns, providing rare data on Gulf habitat ...

BEAUFORT — While there are still little sea turtles patiently waiting in their eggs for the signal to emerge from the sand and dash for the waves, the nesting season for mother turtles has drawn to a ...

Studies have shown that lighted nets can reduce bycatch of sea turtles and sharks, but the idea has faced many hurdles to adoption. The batteries are short lived, expensive to replace and raise ...

What looked like random grooves on a steep Italian cliff turned out to be footprints from nearly 80 million years ago. Scientists now think these marks may record a mass escape—possibly a stampede of ...