Loggerhead sea turtles are sentinels for changing oceans. In a new analysis covering nearly 30 years of data on turtle movements, sea surface temperatures, and seawater chlorophyll levels, Stanford ...
In response to a Center petition, in 2011 the federal government declared loggerhead sea turtles in the Pacific an endangered species, upgrading their status from the less-protective "threatened" and ...
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 ...
In response to a Center petition, in 2011 the federal government declared loggerhead sea turtles in the Pacific an endangered species, upgrading their status from the less-protective "threatened" and ...
While all other sea turtles have hard ... They can be found in the tropic and temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea.
While there is only one species of leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), populations are often categorized by their oceanic regions. Pacific leatherback sea turtles, for example, are renowned ...
Locals call it the arribada, Spanish for “arrival”: the magical days and nights when tens of thousands of sea turtles come ashore on Costa Rica’s Pacific coast to lay millions of eggs.
Leatherbacks are the largest of all sea turtles, weighing up to 2,000lb (900kg) and reaching over 6ft (2m) in length. The population of leatherbacks in the Eastern Pacific has declined by more ...
A green sea turtle, named Charlotte by rescuers, was struck by a boat back in 2008, in an accident which left him with with partial paralysis and “bubble butt syndrome" — an ailment where air ...
ASTORIA, Ore. — A dead sea turtle was found Monday on Sunset Beach near Fort Stevens State Park near Astoria. The Seaside Aquarium said recent storms from the south likely pushed the turtle into ...
other The Robertson family were sailing across the Pacific, when their boat was ... As time passed drifting at sea, the Robertsons' turtle recipes became more inventive. "We made soup out of ...
A sea turtle found Monday near Fort Stevens State Park was already dead when it washed ashore, the Seaside Aquarium said. The 40-pound olive ridley sea turtle was found on Sunset Beach.