The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission documented over 1,200 cold-stunned sea turtle rescues within six ...

Green sea turtles congregate near a dock in the Bahamas. They were so numerous during Columbus’s day that “it seemed ... in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

I’m at Padre Island National Seashore to learn about rare Kemp ... (Kemp’s ridleys are the only sea turtles that nest mostly during the day.) A volunteer tells me that it’s easy to get superstitious ...

(The video was recorded June 23.) “Unlike other sea turtle species, Kemp’s ridleys nest during the day,” Cape Hatteras National Seashore wrote in the post. “Kemp’s ridleys have a unique ...

This story continues below the slideshow. The release coincided with National Sandcastle Day and featured a sea turtle sand sculpture. The public art exhibit was created by professional sand ...

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. One late summer day in 1961 a biologist ... curious crowd was an immense black sea turtle tipping the scales at 900 ...