The first public Kemp's ridley sea turtle hatchling release of the season is scheduled for June 14 at Padre Island National ...

A police department shared a video showing officers releasing newly-hatched sea turtles after they wound up in a hotel. Above, a stock image of baby sea turtles making their way toward the ocean.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It’s sad but true: only around one in 1,000 baby sea turtles ...

Sea turtles navigate the ocean using the Earth's magnetic field, but until now, it was unknown if they could memorize new coordinates. In this study, baby sea turtles in a bowl were exposed to a ...

Over 500 Baby Sea Turtles Washed Ashore in a Big Storm off South Africa. Here's the Rescue Effort CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — An aquarium in South Africa is stretched beyond capacity after ...

Members of the Coast Guard watched as 446 of their rescues scuttled their way to the ocean waters — a great success in the fight against sea turtle poaching. Once they reach adulthood ...

Researchers set out to catch baby turtles in the Gulf of Mexico to tag them and learn more about where they go when they scurry to the sea after hatching. Sea turtles famously lay their eggs in ...

In this video, baby sea turtles dig themselves from the sand in which they were laid as eggs. However, their nesting spot was anything but random. Female sea turtles return to their birth location ...

A mass abduction on an idyllic beach in Costa Rica has concluded with happy endings — 736 of them. Poachers snatched hundreds of sea turtle eggs from nests along Costa Rica’s southern coast, a ...

Baby loggerhead turtles can identify specific magnetic signatures, according to a new paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature. “It is amazing that sea turtles have access to a wealth of ...

Once eggs are laid, incubation can take anywhere from 40 to 60 days depending on the species of sea turtles, according to the National Park Service (NPS). When the hatching of a nest begins ...