When strolling through your local park this summer, you may have noticed turtles sunning themselves on logs or poking their heads up in lakes and ponds. Chances are they’re painted turtles or ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Sea turtle nesting season is officially underway, which means thousands of turtles will come to our local beaches to lay their eggs from now through October. And the hot ...

Green sea turtles may be running out of males, as the effects of rising temperatures and pollutants are making them hatch mostly female. This endangered species has seen some beaches where over 99 ...

A baby green turtle (left) and a baby loggerhead (right), excavated by conservationists in Florida. Each March, sea turtle nesting season begins with the females’ slow yet determined scooch onto ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - June 16th is World Sea Turtle Day. These amazing creatures have been swimming in our oceans for over 100 million years! But six of the world’s seven sea turtle ...

HILTON HEAD — It’s sea turtle nesting and hatching season in South Carolina, a stretch that lasts from May to October. Along the Palmetto State coast, groups of volunteers partnering with the state ...

The story of this spring has been the weather, specifically, the rain that just keeps falling. Add in the new arrival of the hazy smoke blowing south from Canadian wildfires and you’ve got a soggy, ...

Endangered honu’ea risk being struck and killed by Maalaea vehicles if a shoreline turtle fence isn’t protected from human damage, community groups say. The approximately 1.5-mile stretch of special ...

A new study says that the risk poaching poses to endangered sea turtles is on the decline -- although data on the subject is scarce. A new study says that the risk poaching poses to endangered sea ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Turtle nesting season is in full swing, but so is beach season meeting that the areas these turtles’ nest on are busier than usual. Turtle watch patrols the beaches ...

Biologist Brad Semel releases a 9-month-old Blanding’s turtle into a swampy area of Chain O’Lakes State Park on June 15, 2022, in Spring Grove. Brad Semel, a biologist and endangered species ...

MONROE COUNTY, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) — If you’re planning a trip to Monroe Lake soon, do you need to be wary of a nine-foot, 300-year-old snapping turtle capable of killing a person? The short answer – no.