News

Mote Marine Laboratory’s Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program (STCRP) has documented sea turtle activities and the status of shoreline habitat along 35 miles of coastline since 1982. This area ...
Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible ... was carried out over three weeks in 2022 by Magellan, a deep-sea mapping company based in the Channel Islands.
These are loggerhead sea turtles, and for years their numbers have been in decline. In fact, according to the Center for Biological Diversity, there may be only around 50,000 of them left in the wild.
These are loggerhead sea turtles, and for years their numbers have been in decline. In fact, according to the Center for Biological Diversity, there may be only around 50,000 of them left in the wild.
While it is widely understood that loggerheads depend on the Earth’s magnetic fields for navigation, researchers have so far been unsuccessful in elucidating how these tropical sea turtles ...
A recent survey shows that endangered sea turtles are recovering. © Simonverhamme, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ...
For many mammals and reptiles, their sex is determined by their genetic makeup, but this is not the case for sea turtles. Theirs is determined by the temperature that the eggs are incubated at during ...
The hawksbill sea turtle has astonished scientists with its unique ability to exhibit biofluorescence. This trait enables the turtles to absorb light and re-emit it in different colors, primarily red ...
FWC decorates sea turtle eggs for research The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is coloring sea turtle eggs. Researchers say the colored eggs are a way to collect data on ...
Sharks, fish, and two endangered species of sea turtles — hawksbill and Kemp's Ridley —use the area. "At a time when the climate crisis is threatening our fragile ocean ecosystem and costing ...
Endangered sea turtles show signs of recovery in a majority of places where they’re found worldwide, according to a new global survey released Thursday. “Many of the turtle populations have ...
Between November and April, several beaches across the country turn into hatching grounds for Olive Ridley turtles — one of the smallest sea turtle species in the world. These little guys crawl ...