Citizen science is ripe with benefits. Programs can involve hundreds, sometimes thousands, of volunteers who collect reliable, long-term and geographically widespread data. These people donate their ...

The Gulf Specimen Marine Lab shared photos of one of their recent sea turtle rescues, Ravioli.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program documented the first local turtle activity of ...

After decades of protection, green sea turtles are rebounding and no longer classified as endangered on the global Red List ...

For turtles that grow up in the sea, or in our ponds and swamps, early childhood is often when they're the most vulnerable. They're small, inexperienced, and at the mercy of cars and animal predators.

It’s among nature’s greatest spectacles. Each year, thousands of sea turtle mothers clamber ashore on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of Florida, meticulously dig into the sand to lay their eggs, and ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The ATV motored its way along the beach, with the eyes of one volunteer and one paid employee scouting for turtles or turtle tracks or turtle nests. Erica Sertl says it has ...

BALD HEAD ISLAND, N.C. (WTVD) -- A unique program on the North Carolina coast is working to restore the sea turtle population, especially Loggerheads, the main species seen in the state. According to ...

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) – The peak of sea turtle season happens in July, when some are getting ready to hatch, and ...

A daring sea turtle recovery mission in Australia was just the latest in a long list of sea turtle rescues.

Puerto Vallarta’s "crowning glory," its tourism board says, are the turtle release programs and events, which take place from August through December each year. Sea turtles return a decade later to ...