Volunteers say patrols will be reduced at Padre Island National Seashore during Kemp's ridley sea turtle nesting season.

For the world’s smallest sea turtles, life in the ocean is getting pretty noisy. These relatively little turtles (on average ...

It may not be Christmas yet, but visitors to Padre Island National Seashore got an early and extraordinary surprise this week. Around 11 a.m. on Tuesday, beachgoers spotted tiny green sea turtle ...

Wildlife officials and a network of volunteers raced against the clock to rescue hundreds of "cold-stunned" sea turtles from the shallow waters of the Laguna Madre as plunging temperatures threatened ...

The Marine Science Center in Volusia County is caring for about a dozen cold-stunned sea turtles.

Little is known about how sensitive the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is to human noises – but a new hearing test could change ...

Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, one of the most endangered sea turtle species on Earth, live in some of the noisiest waters on the ...

HAVE PUSHED DOZENS OF SEA TURTLES BACK ONTO SHORE. AND NOW THEY’RE GETTING SOME MUCH NEEDED HELP. WESH 2’S VOLUSIA COUNTY REPORTER PAMELA COMBS SHOWS US HOW THE MARINE SCIENCE CENTER IS TAKING CARE OF ...

It's a long-held idea that turtles can tuck their heads into their shells when threatened. But is it true? And is this protective trick why turtles the world over have shells today? The answer is that ...

A performance of Moss Anthology#5 for Buglisi Dance Theatre (left). Ruby, an endangered Burmese roofed turtle who lives at a turtle sanctuary in New Jersey (right). Hisae Aihara/Martin Broen Get the ...

Cheers rose from a bundled-up crowd as a loggerhead sea turtle that survived a likely shark attack trundled back into the ocean after months of ...