After they emerge from their nests, baby sea turtles crawl towards the ocean and basically disappear for the next year or so as they drift thousands of kilometers with ocean currents. Eventually ...

Newly hatched Kemp's ridley sea turtles are released on Malaquite Beach every summer. Hundreds of people gathered Friday to watch the spectacle. PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE — As the sun rose early ...

When baby sea turtles hatch from their buried eggs, they use their powerful flippers to make their way up through the sand. A new "sand-swimming" robot, inspired by those hatchlings, could one day ...

This robot can swim under the sand and dig itself out too, thanks to two front limbs that mimic the oversized flippers of turtle hatchlings. It’s the only robot that is able to travel in sand at a ...

In the early morning, just as the sun rises, a delicate rumble beneath the sand begins to stir, and small dark heads breach the surface and peak out from underground. Then, an eruption occurs as tiny ...

In 2008, I had just begun volunteering at Equilibrio Azul — a non-profit marine-research and -conservation organization based in Quito — when colleagues discovered a hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys ...

So far this year, Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Florida has rehabilitated and released 97 sea turtles, ranging from juveniles to adults, and over 1,183 hatchlings and washbacks. Swim Shady, one of ...

The zoo announced on Saturday that its Sea Turtle Healing Center was helping more than 200 baby sea turtles, which included species such as green, loggerhead and hawksbill. The Sea Turtle Preservation ...