An endangered sea turtle has pulled off a stunning first in Orange County, laying eggs in two separate nests hundreds of miles outside the animal’s usual stomping grounds. The female olive ridley has ...

Sea turtles return to the same nesting sites year after year to grow their populations, but rising global temperatures have disrupted this ancient cycle. New research has found that two sea turtle ...

The flatback turtle (Natator depressus) is endemic to northern Australia and although females come ashore to lay their eggs, little is known about the species' behavior at sea. Lead author and Ph.D.

Two olive ridley sea turtles that came to Southern California to nest may be "pioneers." Here's why this matters.

Sea turtles are the poster animal for plastics pollution in the ocean. There is a reason why they may be so susceptible to becoming caught up in plastic trash. In a new sea turtle behavior study, ...

Caught in an Atlantic hurricane, satellite-tagged loggerhead turtles changed their dive behavior and movement patterns as the storm passed. The tags also recorded changes in the environment. In early ...

Turtles, like most critters, instinctively avoid obstacles. Researchers have tapped into this instinct to steer a turtle without sticking probes into its brain or muscles, an achievement that could ...

Sea turtles have long been a key part of the cultural and natural resource heritage of Hawaiʻi. Once sought for their meat, Hawaiian green sea turtles, or honu, suffered a sharp population decline ...

For nine weeks during the summer of 2002, the movement of stinkpot turtles (Sternotherus odoratus) in Lake Matoaka was monitored as part of a behavioral study. In this study, we hoped to determine ...

Caught in an Atlantic hurricane, satellite-tagged loggerhead turtles changed their dive behavior and movement patterns as the storm passed. The tags also recorded changes in the environment. In early ...