The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is sending a reminder that nesting season is underway for sea turtles, shorebirds, seabirds, and wading birds.

Florida wildlife officials plead to keep fireworks and dogs from traumatizing nesting shorebirds and sea turtles ...

Ready to see adorable baby turtles? This week, the Georgia Sea Turtle Center confirmed the first hatchlings. Where? When? How ...

Florida’s beaches are critical spring and summer nesting habitat for several species of federally threatened and endangered ...

Here's how Jorge the sea turtle prepared for the improbable journey—decades after he was found tangled in a fishing net off ...

In the dead of night on a beach in Suriname's capital Paramaribo, a group of just-hatched baby sea turtles clamber out of their sandy nesting hole and race, flippers flailing, ...

Backers tout Jacksonville University's partnership with Mickler's Landing Turtle Patrol as a chance for hands-on research about protected species.

This 700-pound leatherback sea turtle carcass was found on a Martha's Vineyard beach on June 16. The female turtle was likely at least older than 15 years, scientists said.

The state is best known for its manatees and alligators, but one of the world's most important sea turtle refuges is quietly ...

Across Georgia's 15 barrier islands, sea turtle conservation efforts appear to be paying off. Here's a look at a few of them.

Sea turtle season doesn't start until May 1, but a female leatherback crawled onto Vanderbilt Beach and laid a nest, the first historic account of this massive species laying eggs on this beach.