University of Florida’s Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience is building a new $41.2 million, 38,000-square-foot Marine Research Institute building and Sea Turtle Research Center and Hospital.

When a hatching sea turtle first pokes its head above the sand and scrambles to the sea, a watching child might ask how the turtle knows where to go and how girl turtles know to come back one day to a ...

Brevard Zoo secured $1.75 million in federal funding for its new sea turtle care complex, part of the planned $140 million ...

This loggerhead sea turtle washed ashore in Texas covered in layer of encrustation, including barnacles in its mouth, experts discovered. Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research photo It’s common for slow ...

Turtles are able to grasp that the same object seen from different angles is not a different object, an important trait for ...

STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) -- A few small Loggerhead sea turtles may not realize it, but they're setting off on a journey that could change the way we understand the Pacific Ocean. And perhaps, lead a ...

Marine turtles are integral components of marine ecosystems and serve as valuable bioindicators of environmental change. Their health status, as revealed by a range of biochemical parameters, provides ...

Sea turtles, as long-lived and migratory reptiles, are increasingly vulnerable to parasitic infections that can undermine their health and conservation status. Among the various pathogens, blood ...

Iowa State University professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology Nicole Valenzuela, right, holding an adult painted turtle inside her lab, with research scientist Itzel Sifuentes-Romero. A ...