The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

Today sea turtles are found on the beaches of every continent except Antarctica, and they swim in all tropical and temperate waters. Once or twice a month during Costa Rica’s rainy season ...

Once on the verge of extinction due to decades of rampant exploitation, the black sea turtle is making a comeback. Here's how ...

Hawksbill sea turtles happily flap through the world’s tropical oceans with bellies full of glass-like fragments. Researchers examining the turtles’ digestive tracts would be wise to take care ...

The Mirror's environment editor went behind the scenes at the UK's first turtle rehabilitation centre and to find out why so ...

RANGE: Loggerhead sea turtles occur throughout the temperate and tropical waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. In the Atlantic Ocean, they range from Newfoundland to Argentina.

HUNDREDS of baby sea turtles were released into the ocean after a rapid response team rescued a record number of eggs from ...

Adult leatherbacks can grow as large as nearly 2 meters long. The species is the largest sea turtle that migrates in tropical and temperate seas, including the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean ...