For nearly four decades, residents in southern India's Chennai have patrolled moonlit beaches at night trying to protect sea ...

A giant leatherback sea turtle got a personal escort back to the open ocean after taking a wrong turn into boat traffic.

Once on the verge of extinction due to decades of rampant exploitation, the black sea turtle is making a comeback. Here's how ...

Some beach accesses will be closed as the county tills beach sand to prepare for nesting season, which begins May 1.

Lenny, a 322-pound loggerhead turtle, was found off the Florida Keys struggling to swim and with visible wounds.

Martin told me she would army crawl up to the turtles on the sand and dab around their eyes with a foam swab, soaking up the goopy tears they exude. Sea turtles regularly shed tears as a way to expel ...

Benji previously worked as a wildlife researcher. Each year, in late spring and early summer, female sea turtles will crawl out of the ocean under moonlight to lay their eggs in the sand ...

Each year, in late spring and early summer, female sea turtles will crawl out of the ocean under moonlight to lay their eggs in the sand, often returning to the same beach on which they were born ...

STAFF from the Johnny Morris Sea Turtle Center in Springfield, Missouri, release 19 loggerhead and Kemp’s ridley turtles that had been rehabilitating on March 26 off Jacksonville, Florida.

Such patrols have been conducted off the waters of San Diego for years, with frequent migrant boat landings. But now ...

A Loggerhead Sea Turtle hatchling makes it's way to the Atlantis Ocean in this undated photo, in Juno Beach, Fla. By most measures, it was a banner year for sea turtle nests at beaches around the U.S.