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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Turtle was hypothermic and close to death when she was discovered on a Clare beach on Christmas Eve but is now doing well at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anglesey Sea Zoo believe Tally lost its way whilst ... for such species of turtles to survive, and many of the tropical turtles washed up on beaches around the UK are found dead," said the centre.

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 ...