The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto land ...

A loggerhead sea turtle, she’s a creature of the subtropics, so it’s really not clear how she ended up in a bay in Canada.

Once prevalent in every ocean except the Arctic and Antarctic, the leatherback population is rapidly declining in many parts of the world. While all other sea turtles have hard, bony shells ...

Gulf World Marine Institute is one of three sea turtle rehabilitation and release groups in the panhandle, covering the area from St. George Island to South Walton. The institute says Rumproast isn’t ...

Related: Shell-tastic Turtle Facts & Jokes to Share As the name implies, sea turtles live in the ocean, but there is a lot to learn about which parts of this large expanse that they ... impact on the ...

With their protective shell, this now endangered species has survived mass extinctions and lives throughout the world – ...

The Greek island of Zakynthos, described as the largest loggerhead turtle maternity ward in the Mediterranean.

It is not the first time a large number of olive ridley turtles has been found dead in Oaxaca. In 2018, fishermen found 300 of them entangled in fishing nets. Mexico banned the capture of sea ...

Students write about the importance of reducing waste to help the environment and the at-risk marine animals we need to save.

There are only seven species of sea turtles in the world, and all sea turtles found in U.S. waters ... For decades turtle excluder devices have been required for large segments of the U.S. shrimp ...