Every year, hundreds of loggerheads, Kemp’s ridleys, greens, and other sea turtle species wash ashore on Massachusetts beaches, mostly along the coast of Cape Cod Bay. Stranding season peaks in late ...

Through satellite mapping software, the movements of 20 turtles tagged in Iran, Oman, United Arab Emirates and Qatar have already been recorded and initial findings have uncovered interesting results.

It also means that the turtles are more vulnerable to being caught unintentionally by fishing gear in coastal and offshore areas. The eastern Pacific population had a different migration pattern, ...

STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) -- When we first met a group of endangered loggerhead sea turtles last year, they were plunging into the Pacific, outfitted with satellite tracking devices. Since then, ...

NOW, SCIENTISTS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY ARE WORKING TO FIND OUT WHY. LET’S CHECK IN WITH OUR METEOROLOGIST HEATHER WALDMAN. SHE’S HERE WITH US LIVE. SO, HEATHER, SCIENTISTS HAVE SOME IDEA OF WHAT’S ...

The majestic leatherback turtle is the largest sea turtle in the world, growing to more than 6 feet in length. It is also one of the most threatened. A major new study of migration patterns has ...

Scientists in Georgia are using DNA from one egg per sea turtle nest to track ancestry and migration patterns. Human activities, such as leaving trash on beaches and disturbing nests, can negatively ...

Warmer oceans and depleting food have affected the ubiquitous loggerhead turtle’s reproductive and migratory patterns — and even its size.

(CN) — Green sea turtles, long known as creatures of habit, may have been feasting on the same North African seagrass beds for millennia, according to research published in the Proceedings of the ...