When we picture sea turtles in the wild, it's easy to envision them as armored warriors—their hard, resilient shells serving ...

A new study finds microplastics in nearly every organ of stranded sea turtles, including their reproductive systems.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Nineteen sea turtles that were rehabilitated in Missouri after suffering the effects of cold water temperatures in New England were released this past week into the Atlantic Ocean off of ...

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 ...

More sea turtles than usual have been found stranded or dead in Brevard County, Florida. The increase in strandings, mostly juvenile green sea turtles, is likely due to prolonged exposure to cold ...