NOW, SCIENTISTS AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY ARE WORKING TO FIND OUT WHY. LET’S CHECK IN WITH OUR METEOROLOGIST HEATHER WALDMAN. SHE’S HERE WITH US LIVE. SO, HEATHER, SCIENTISTS HAVE SOME IDEA OF WHAT’S ...

SOLOMONS, MD (March 1, 2012)—The majestic leatherback turtle is the largest sea turtle in the world, growing to more than 6 feet in length. It is also one of the most threatened. A major new study of ...

By Fernanda Wenzel It’s just a sweet, squeaky sound, like that of a rubber duck. For scientists, however, it could have various meanings, ranging from “Time to spawn!” to “Come on, little ones!” to ...

For turtles that call Haliburton Highlands home, survival is a numbers game with increasingly deadly odds. According to researchers with the Turtle Guardians, a program of The Land Between charity, a ...

Every year, hundreds of loggerheads, Kemp’s ridleys, greens, and other sea turtle species wash ashore on Massachusetts beaches, mostly along the coast of Cape Cod Bay. Stranding season peaks in late ...

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — A loggerhead sea turtle, rehabilitated at The Turtle Hospital, joined a “race” Friday against 10 other turtles after being released on a Florida Keys beach with a ...

STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) -- When we first met a group of endangered loggerhead sea turtles last year, they were plunging into the Pacific, outfitted with satellite tracking devices. Since then, ...

Sea turtles use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate, but they may not be very good at it. Scientists put GPS trackers on 22 hawksbill turtles in the Indian Ocean. They found that most used ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Whether you're hitting the highway or taking a spin on the bike trail, keep an eye out for a slow-moving bump in the road. The springtime turtle migration season is beginning in ...

(CN) — Green sea turtles, long known as creatures of habit, may have been feasting on the same North African seagrass beds for millennia, according to research published in the Proceedings of the ...