A loggerhead sea turtle, she’s a creature of the subtropics, so it’s really not clear how she ended up in a bay in Canada.

Newly hatched sea turtles ‘swim’ their way out of buried nests into the world 1 . When green sea turtles ( Chelonia mydas ) emerge from the egg, they are buried in sand up to a metre deep.

that they move as if they were swimming rather than digging, and that as they approach the surface of the sand, they restrict their movement to nighttime,” says Mr Dor. Sea turtle populations ...

While most sea turtles warm themselves by swimming close to the surface of shallow waters, the Eastern Pacific green turtle will take to land to bask in the sun. Occasionally seen sunbathing ...

With their protective shell, this now endangered species has survived mass extinctions and lives throughout the world – ...

A sea turtle has been spotted in Nha Trang Bay in Vietnam's south central coast for the first time in years, marking a ...

Sea turtles are considered a keystone species ... "If there was an Olympic gold medal for which marine species swims the most every year, I'd be surprised if the leatherback turtle wasn't the ...

A sea turtle was sighted around Hon Mun Island in Nha Trang Bay, south-central Vietnam last week for the first time after ...

Sea turtle eggs are buried in nests 30 -- 80cm deep ... "You just don't think about how much work it takes for these tiny hatchlings to swim through the sand in the dark, with almost no oxygen ...

Schwanz. More information: David Dor et al, Swimming through sand: using accelerometers to observe the cryptic, pre-emergence life-stage of sea turtle hatchlings, Proceedings of the Royal Society ...