University of Manchester scientists have discovered significant concentrations of microplastics in the male reproductive system of sea turtles. The scientists also found slightly less, but still ...

University of Manchester scientists have discovered significant concentrations of microplastics in the male reproductive system of sea turtles ... of both male and female turtles, including ...

While all other sea turtles have hard ... inside the nest determines the sex of the hatchlings. A mix of male and female hatchlings occurs when the nest temperature is approximately 85.1 degrees ...

A new study has revealed that increasing temperatures are turning green turtle populations almost completely female in the northern Great Barrier Reef ... “First back-to-back mass coral bleaching and ...

Warmer temperatures create female turtles and cooler temperatures result in male turtles. Only one of every hundred sea turtles that hatch will survive until adulthood, due to predation and human ...

On March 15, the media reported that in less than 31 hours, three male green sea turtle carcasses were discovered stranded along Pantai Chakar Hutan, with one showing wounds suspected to be caused ...

Nesting earlier in the year would help the turtle nests avoid hot temperatures in midsummer, which would lead to higher hatching success and the production of more male turtles, Hirsch said.

DESCRIPTION: The leatherback sea turtle is distinguished ... In the Atlantic, the turtles breed in Florida, the Caribbean, and South America in the western Atlantic and along the coast of West Africa ...

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.

Tagged at Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary on Odisha coast around four years ago, an Olive Ridley Turtle swam around 3,600 km through the Bay of Bengal before being spotted at a Maharashtra beach, a senior ...