JUNO BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Sea turtle nesting season is officially underway, which means thousands of turtles will come to our local beaches to lay their eggs from now through October. And the hot ...

A baby green turtle (left) and a baby loggerhead (right), excavated by conservationists in Florida. Each March, sea turtle nesting season begins with the females’ slow yet determined scooch onto ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - June 16th is World Sea Turtle Day. These amazing creatures have been swimming in our oceans for over 100 million years! But six of the world’s seven sea turtle ...

For more than four decades, the Texas coast has been ground zero in the fight to save endangered sea turtles, from rescuing ...

QUINCY — As global warming fills the plankton-rich waters of New England with death traps for sea turtles, the number of stranded reptiles has multiplied over the last 20 years, filling one ...

CHARLESTOWN, RI (WFSB) - Two sea turtles with a new lease on life were set to be released back into the wild. Phineas and Tullibee were rehabbed at Mystic Aquarium for hook-related injuries, aquarium ...

Sunday, June 8 is World Oceans Day and we’re going to look at California’s state sea reptile as well as other turtles in our waters. One or more of the seven species of sea turtles can be found in ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Earlier this week, the Texas State Aquarium released 275 cold-stunned sea turtles back into the Gulf of Mexico. The animals were rescued from the Upper Laguna Madre just days ...

“Hawaiian green sea turtles, or honu, are native to Hawaiʻi. They are the largest hard-shelled sea turtle in the world, reaching lengths of four feet and weighing over 300 pounds. Out of the seven ...

Nickel, a green sea turtle rescued near Goodland, Fla., swims the waters of the Shedd Aquarium’s Caribbean Reef exhibit in 2003. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune/TNS) MIAMI — Each March, sea turtle ...

Each March, sea turtle nesting season begins with the females’ slow yet determined scooch onto Florida’s shores, shoveling away sand with her speckled fins, digging a hole to lay eggs. The season ...

Sea turtle conservation policies took off in the 1970s and ’80s, with fishing gear regulations, fines for harming nests and a ban on sea turtle hatchery. Loggerhead and green sea turtles were listed ...