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Oct. 28, 2020 —Florida's sea turtle nesting surveying comes to a close on Halloween and like everything else in 2020, the season was a bit weird. The number of green sea turtle nests on central and southern ...
Sep. 7, 2022 —Researchers estimate that more than 1.1 million sea turtles have been illegally killed and, in some cases, trafficked between 1990 and 2020. Even with existing laws prohibiting their capture and ...
Feb. 18, 2021 —Researchers are homing in on the cause of a major disease of sea turtles, with some of their latest findings implicating saltwater leeches as a possible factor. The results present the first evidence ...
July 8, 2021 —A new study indicates that smaller loggerhead and green sea turtles are nesting on Florida beaches than in the past; however, researchers aren't sure why. The findings give clues to the status ...
Aug. 26, 2020 —A research team found that sea turtles in the US will have less suitable nesting habitat in the future because of climate change and coastal ...
Oct. 26, 2022 —A new low-cost sensor designed to resemble a sea turtle egg enables scientists to monitor nests remotely and predict when hatchlings will emerge almost to the day -- providing valuable information ...
Aug. 2, 2021 —Plastic pollution creates an 'evolutionary trap' for young sea turtles, new research shows. After hatching on beaches, sea turtles travel on currents and spend their early years in the open ...
May 4, 2021 —Sea turtles in the Cayman Islands are recovering from the brink of local extinction, new research ...
July 17, 2023 —For approximately 3,000 years, generations of green sea turtles have returned to the same seagrass meadows to eat. The fact that this stretches over many generations highlights the importance of ...
Oct. 19, 2020 —The number of sea turtles spotted along the coasts of the UK and Ireland has declined in recent years, researchers ...