It is illegal to touch, disturb, or harass sea turtles, their hatchlings, or their nests under state and federal law. If you find a sea turtle in distress, contact the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

March is the official start of nesting season for sea turtles in the Sunshine State and, as a protected species, there are a ...

Sea turtle nesting season has begun in Florida. Learn what to do and what not to do if you encounter a sea turtle or nest.

Between now and the end of October, thousands of sea turtles will return to the area where they were born to lay nests of ...

Blows to various sea turtle programs have resulted in the Georgia Department of Natural Resources having to scrape by and step up.

They appear straight out of prehistory – and they are; the reptiles have survived mostly unchanged since the age of the dinosaurs. They are a soft shelled turtle with thick, black, rubbery skin where ...

Loggerhead sea turtles nesting in Cape Verde are arriving earlier as Atlantic waters warm, but are breeding less often and producing fewer eggs, according to a 17-year study published in the journal ...

The ruling did not waffle or leave questions about legality for another day. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions ...

After siding with President Donald Trump in two dozen cases in the past year in ways that boosted his power and let him quickly transform U.S. policies on immigration, military service, federal ...

RIGHT NOW, ABOUT 72 DEGREES. THAT’S A LOOK AT THE FORECAST. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, GLENN. AND JUST LAST WEEK, LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER FOUND THEIR EARLIEST LEATHERBACK NEST ON THEIR 8.5 ...

JUNO BEACH, Fla. — The 2026 sea turtle nesting season is officially underway. A leatherback sea turtle nested in Juno Beach last week, marking the first recorded nest of the season. The Sea Turtle ...

The ocean can be an extremely dangerous place, even for an animal that migrates through and rides its currents for decades. That’s why a single missing limb can spell disaster, despite an animal being ...