“Turtles were around before dinosaurs, and they watched them emerge, prosper, and disappear altogether. Without changing their body plan at all, turtles further observed the rise of birds and mammals.

JUNO BEACH – It’s turtle walk season, a time when people can witness one of the Atlantic Coast environment’s most remarkable moments: sea turtle nesting. Local residents and visitors in northern Palm ...

Nesting female marine turtles arrived at La Escobilla beach on Mexico's Oaxaca Pacific coast, in their annual migration, a sign that life is about to burst forth from scorched grains of sand. Every ...

FLAGLER BEACH — Lori Ottlein likes turtles. She already had a couple of pet turtles, known as cooters, named Sam and Ella, when one day, more than two decades ago, she saw some people on the beach ...

It’s an exceptional thrill and a privilege of living on our coast: watching a huge sea turtle lumber in from the ocean, lay her eggs on the beach and head back to the water. Green sea turtle season ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

When Sue Nash has friends over in the summer, they sometimes sit on the deck and watch wildlife. Turtles, to be specific. Nash and her husband, Mark Nash, built a home along the Poplar River near ...

JAMAICA, Queens (WABC) -- Why would a bunch of turtles leave their comfortable swampland around Jamaica Bay, and wander onto a busy runway at JFK Airport? They've been using the runway to lay their ...

For the first time, the world’s rarest species of sea turtle has laid eggs on Magnolia Beach in Texas, experts say. On Monday morning, R.J. Shelly, a Calhoun County Marine Extension Agent, received a ...