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 ...

While all other sea turtles have hard, bony shells, the inky-blue carapace of the leatherback is somewhat flexible and almost rubbery to the touch. Ridges along the carapace help give it a more ...

A diver came up close to a sea turtle off the coast of Siquijor in the Philippines.

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest ...

Stanford scientists’ pioneering approach can elucidate the migratory patterns of tropical loggerhead turtles across ...

By Alex Fox Photograph by Shane Gross Hawksbill sea turtles happily flap through the world’s tropical oceans with bellies full of glass-like fragments. Researchers examining the turtles ...

Manatees and sea turtles are vulnerable to cold snaps like the Arctic blasts this month as cold air can drop the temperature ...

Pacific leatherback sea turtles, for example, are renowned for their incredible migrations from tropical and subtropical beaches in Indonesia to feeding grounds along the West Coast of the United ...

European red foxes have been caught on camera digging up sea turtle eggs and biting hatchlings at Mackay, prompting plans for ...

The hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), a critically ... The critically endangered hawksbills (Eretmochelys imbricata) are found in tropical and subtropical waters in the Atlantic ...

Warming temperatures allow tropical disturbances to draw more power ... The changing conditions raise questions about the future of sea turtles, an endangered animal that has played a crucial ...

Swimming with stingrays is an iconic Cayman Islands experience at Stingray City off Grand Cayman. (Cayman Islands Department of Tourism/Cayman Islands Department of Tourism) ...