How do sea turtles lay eggs, and how do the hatchlings get to the sea? What happens next? Read more to find out.

SURF CITY, NC (WWAY) — Monday is World Sea Turtle Day. It’s meant to raise public awareness and highlight the importance of the sea creature.

Hard corals at the Great Barrier Reef. Image by sgoodwin4813 via Depositphotos. The Great Barrier Reef provides a unique and ideal habitat for sea turtles due to its warm waters, abundant food sources ...

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

A green sea turtle before vs. after experts cleaned barnacles and other organisms off its shell in April 2025. When she was first rescued, she weighed over 7 ½ pounds.

A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

Having evaluated 48 populations of six sea turtle species around the world, and examining the state of their habitats, threats, conservation capacity, and so on, the results are in: if you’re a ...

Finally, some good news: endangered sea turtles are recovering because ome conservation efforts seem to be working. A paper published earlier this month in Inter-Research Science Publisher reveals ...

Mystic Aquarium’s Animal Rescue Program and its partners at Jekyll Island’s Georgia Sea Turtle Center released 22 juvenile sea turtles into the Atlantic Ocean on April 10.

For her doctoral research, Martin, a PhD student at the University of Central Florida, has been analyzing sea turtle tears. Yes, the tears of sea turtles. So on several summer nights in 2023 and ...

Most sea turtle populations are rebounding around the world, researchers said this week. That promising news comes even amid continuing man-made threats to the beloved marine reptiles, including ...

The flatback, found only in the seas around Australia, is considered vulnerable by that country. Here are 20 other things you might not know about sea turtles.