A brand new research has discovered that rehabilitated Kemp's ridley and loggerhead sea turtles expertise a considerable stress response when transported to launch places within the southern United States however that the turtles remained bodily steady and prepared for launch.

Researchers discovered that greater than double the variety of organisms than beforehand noticed reside on the shells of those oceanic reptiles, elevating vital questions on loggerhead sea turtle ecology and conservation.

A staff of researchers created a first-of-its-kind pc mannequin that tracks the place sea turtle hatchlings go after they depart Florida's shores, giving scientists a brand new instrument to determine the place younger turtles spend their 'misplaced years.'

Police in Washington state are struggling to apprehend a pair of turtles noticed with swastikas painted on their shells in a weird act of vandalism. Regardless of their slow-moving fame, the fugitive reptiles stay at giant. ...

A latest examine appeared into what variables are most essential in predicting the variety of cold-stunning and stranding occasions amongst juvenile Kemp's ridley sea turtles in Cape Cod Bay.

Researchers counsel that projected will increase in air temperatures, rainfall inundation and blistering photo voltaic radiation might considerably cut back hawksbill hatching success at a number of main nesting seashores.

Microplastics have been discovered deep within the sand on seashores the place sea turtles lay their eggs.

Researchers have launched new on-line full-color animated fashions of a loggerhead and a inexperienced sea turtle by a collaboration with sea turtle rescue and analysis establishments.