For nearly four decades, residents in southern India's coastal city of Chennai have patrolled moonlit beaches at night trying to protect sea turtles and their hatchlings that for millennia have nested ...

The shape of their shell, which is long and tapered at each end, prevents sea turtles from retracting their head for protection. There are seven extant species of sea turtles- leatherback, hawksbill, ...

Sea turtles can hold their breath for up to seven hours. ©Willyam Bradberry/Shutterstock.com Sea turtles are found all around the world except for the polar regions. There are seven species of sea ...

The island is a significant nesting site for these turtles and there are numerous conservation efforts in place to save them.

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

Juvenile green sea turtles Croissant, Eggs, Hydrangea, Marmalade and Snowdrop all underwent rehabilitation at the aquarium after being initially admitted for cold stunning. Cold-stunned sea ...

The Turtle Hospital is a small non-profit organization dedicated to the rehabilitation of endangered sea turtles, the only one of its kind in Florida. Once there, manager Bette Zirkelbach knew ...