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 ...

Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) are pretty loyal marine reptiles. Even with their roughly 8,000-mile-long migrations across oceans, they consistently return to the same feeding and nesting ...

Now, a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, reveals loggerhead turtles, the most abundant sea turtle species nesting in the United States, learn the magnetic fields of specific ...

Sea turtles are anything but graceful on land, which makes it all the more surprising one was recorded dancing on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The video, shared July 10 on Facebook, shows the turtle ...

CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. (WAVY) – The Cape Hatteras National Seashore shared a video of something quite rare to see. The video, taken near Ramp 23 on Hatteras Island on June 23, shows a Kemp’s ridley sea ...

A visit to the aquarium is often just as educational as it is exciting. It's rare to get such a close glimpse of marine animals like tropical fish and sea otters, but aquariums allow this and so much ...

(CNN) — Sea turtles are renowned for their incredible migrations, traveling thousands of miles across vast oceans with few visible landmarks. Now, a new study, published Wednesday in the journal ...