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

Florida sea turtle nesting season generally starts about March 1 and ends about Nov. 15, but at least four leatherbacks are ...

There are five species of marine turtles in Florida: loggerhead, green, leatherback, Kemp's Ridley and hawksbill.

CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. (WITN) - The most endangered sea turtle species in the world was spotted on our shore laying her eggs. A Kemp’s ridley sea turtle was recorded on Hatteras Island back on June 23rd ...

Nesting female marine turtles arrived at La Escobilla beach on Mexico's Oaxaca Pacific coast, in their annual migration, a sign that life is about to burst forth from scorched grains of sand. Every ...

An endangered sea turtle was rescued after getting stuck between rocks on a Florida beach, authorities said Monday. The loggerhead sea turtle came ashore in Martin County to lay eggs and tried to make ...

Veronica Baruffati walks the stretch of sand on the southern end of Palm Beach every day, from her part-time Florida home north past Sloan’s Curve and back again. What she saw while walking that beach ...

1 in 1,000 turtle hatchlings are expected to survive after they're born. Sea turtles lay about 80 to 120 eggs. There are five Florida sea turtle species: Hawksbill, Kemp's ridley, Loggerhead, ...

JUNO BEACH – It’s turtle walk season, a time when people can witness one of the Atlantic Coast environment’s most remarkable moments: sea turtle nesting. Local residents and visitors in northern Palm ...

JAMAICA, Queens -- Why would a bunch of turtles leave their comfortable swampland around Jamaica Bay, and wander onto a busy runway at JFK Airport? They've been using the runway to lay their eggs for ...

Hilton Head's sea turtle moms have done their job for the season, and now it's time for the hatchlings to leave the nest. After two weeks without a new sea turtle nest on Hilton Head, the nesting ...