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A conservation success hatched Monday on the shores of Magnolia Beach in Calhoun County, Texas. A sea turtle nest containing approximately 45 hatching Kemp's ridley eggs was discovered, and turtles successfully made their ...
The true extent of how successful conservation efforts to protect sea turtle populations along the western coast of Central Africa have been is revealed in a new study, published in Frontiers in Marine Science.
The circle of life was on vivid display Wednesday at the Jersey Shore in a way that even the youngest children could understand.
Animal borne cameras now give scientists unprecedented access into the visual world of animals, including the life and death struggles of hunters and their prey.
Plesiosaurs, which lived about 210 million years ago, adapted to life underwater in a unique way: their front and hind legs evolved in the course of evolution to form four uniform, wing-like flippers. In her thesis supervised ...
A loggerhead turtle whose left fin was destroyed in a shark attack is rehabbing at Zoo Miami's new Sea Turtle Hospital, where veterinarians were able to save more than 100 of her eggs after she was rescued.
DNA "fingerprints" left behind by sea turtles offer scientists a simple, powerful way of tracking the health and whereabouts of these endangered animals, a key step forward in their conservation.
Hundreds of critically endangered baby giant turtles were released into Cambodia's Mekong River to mark World Turtle Day on Monday.
Three rescued loggerhead turtles were released into the Mediterranean off Tunisia on Sunday, one with a tracking beacon glued to its shell to help researchers better protect the threatened species.
When sea turtle hatchlings emerge from their nests, typically at night, they crawl toward the ocean in what is known as "seafinding." They have to discriminate between the brighter seaward versus a dimmer landward horizon ...
