Of the world's seven types of sea turtles, the loggerhead, white, hawksbill and leatherback species especially thrive in warm, Caribbean waters. As home to more than half of the world's endangered sea ...

The leatherback turtle — the largest of all sea turtles — travel more than 3,000 miles from the cold, nutrient-rich waters of ...

Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program documented the first local turtle activity of the 2025 season on Saturday, April 26. The Sea Turtle Patrol reported ...

The Padre Island National Seashore (PINS) Sea Turtle Science and Recovery Program will merge with the Science and Resources Management Division. Many residents and turtle lovers are outraged about ...

The V.I. National Park Sea Turtle Program, run by Friends of Virgin Islands National Park, has been cataloging underwater ...

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCIV) — Sea Turtle hatchling season is here and volunteers with the Folly Beach Turtle Watch Program were able to track two separate nests hatch and a female loggerhead turtle lay a ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: Park Superintendent Eric Brunnemann has not responded to any Caller-Times requests for comment. Dr. Donna Shaver has spent a 40-year career creating a program to halt the extinction of ...

For decades, the public releases of baby Kemp’s ridley turtles at the Padre Island National Seashore have been one of the most popular summer rituals of the Texas Gulf Coast. The feel-good sendoffs on ...

A year after National Park Service officials called for budget cuts and restrictions at the Padre Island National Seashore, opposition is building. More than 25,000 people have signed a petition ...

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.