Every summer, as the sun sets over the shores of Palm Beach County, one of nature’s most awe-inspiring spectacles quietly unfolds in the sand. Sea turtles — greens, leatherbacks and loggerheads — ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — South Carolina’s loggerhead sea turtles are swimming to the Grand Strand’s shores, laying their eggs near the sand dunes, and watching their hatchlings start their lives.

1 in 1,000 turtle hatchlings are expected to survive after they're born. Sea turtles lay about 80 to 120 eggs. There are five Florida sea turtle species: Hawksbill, Kemp's ridley, Loggerhead, ...

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 ...

Professor by night, park ranger by day, protector of sea turtles always. That was the late Hank Smith, a unique person in Florida’s environmental history. I knew him as a colleague at Florida Atlantic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The leatherback sea turtle offers a rare look into ...

Visitors to iSimangaliso Wetland Park are getting a rare glimpse of the delicate and precise nesting process of loggerhead turtles.

KAUKAUNA (WLUK) -- Snapping turtles are out and about in Northeast Wisconsin. Nesting season began recently and runs through mid-July, the time when female snappers lay eggs. "They come out from the ...

The tiny turtles’ perilous haul across the sand is akin to a marathon across the world’s most dangerous obstacle course but ...