When you think of animals that build nests, your mind likely travels to birds. However, while it is true that birds are one ...

Two sea turtles injured by fishing hooks were treated for their injuries at Mystic Aquarium before being released back into ...

We can expect to see hatchlings from these nests in mid to late July.” A false crawl occurs “when a sea turtle comes ashore ...

Sea turtles, it appears ... Leatherback hatchlings encounter plastic bottles and other debris as they crawl across Trinidad’s Matura Beach to reach the ocean. Nature Seekers, a local ...

sea turtles make the tumultuous journey ashore, seeking soft ground to lay their clutch of eggs. Each nest can consist of around 120 eggs. The turtle's journey, from her first crawl onto the ...

That so much effort has been poured into saving green sea turtles may have something to do with the devotion of proponents, who (with the barest prodding) will wax poetic on the beauty and mystery of ...

"If these sea walls remain, endangered sea turtles will continue to false crawl," Norton wrote. A false crawl is an unsuccessful attempt to nest and lay eggs on a beach. South Carolina is home to ...

Over the past 25 years, researchers counting the leatherbacks that crawl out to nest on tropical ... says Scott Eckert of the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network at Duke University.

“Hatchlings that crawl off of our beach are going to return to our beach if they’re female to nest in 15 to 20 years,” she said. Bell said it’s always thrilling to see a sea turtle trek to ...

Recent incidents of turtle nests being tampered with and hatchlings being impeded on their journey to the sea have prompted a ...

DESCRIPTION: The leatherback sea turtle is distinguished by its soft ... BREEDING: Though male leatherbacks never leave the water once they enter it, females crawl onto sandy, tropical beaches to lay ...