Kemp's ridleys —the most endangered sea turtle species in the world—typically nest two to three times per season. That this ...

Lineal descendants of Punaluʻu and conservationists devise plans to permanently protect the land on Hawaiʻi island and its ...

World Turtle Day reminds us that these 200-million-year-old survivors face modern threats like plastic pollution and habitat ...

When you think of endangered turtles, dogs likely don’t come to mind. But what if we told you one pup in particular is ...

An endangered turtle has boarded a Dublin Airport Aer Lingus flight to her new home in Gran Canaria after washing up on ...

On May 19, the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation’s (SCCF) sea turtle nighttime tagging staff documented the first green ...

A sea turtle initially weighed over 7 ½ pounds; her weight decreased to just over 6 pounds once experts cleaned her ...

The federal government is asking for public comment on a plan to designate 125 acres on Guam and 180 acres in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands as critical habitat for green sea ...

Well, that story prompted a faithful reader from nearby Green, Kan., to stop by our morning Old Geezers ... noticed an abundance of flat-shelled land turtles near the water tanks. So, out of curiosity ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- The leading cause of injury to Hawaiian green sea turtles was discovered to ... signs of illness or abnormal behavior on land or in the water. The high volume of fishing ...

Green turtles, for instance ... marine turtles' shells respond to compression in a similar way to those of land turtles, which have a similar basic shell structure. The shell's internal porous ...