Florida’s beaches – particularly those in Palm Beach County – are among the world’s most vital nesting grounds for loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), accounting for 90% of all loggerhead nests ...

Sea turtles have an average lifespan of 20 to 30 years. During that timeframe, they experience changes in ocean chemistry, ocean temperatures, and even prey abundance. Just how much sea turtles are ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Green sea turtle Porkchop, rescued with a severely injured flipper, was released into the San Gabriel River after ...

Gayle Anderson reports a new sea turtle rehabilitation area is now open at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. For the first time, visitors to the Aquarium will be able to see rescued sea ...

Texas is experiencing a record sea turtle nesting season, and now wildlife officials are responding to an unexpected side effect: a rise in baby sea turtles washing up on beaches. The stranded turtles ...

"We are hopeful for her recuperation and eventual release back into the Gulf," officials said Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024, and ...

GULF SHORES, Ala. (WKRG) — It’s day one of sea turtle nesting season, which means volunteers with Share the Beach are already on patrol. “We are looking for sea turtle tracks,” Share the Beach ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. – Cheers rose from a bundled-up crowd as a loggerhead sea turtle that survived a likely shark attack trundled back into the ocean after months of rehabilitation in Florida, carrying a ...