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 ...

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

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 ...

If you think laying eggs is difficult for turtles, think about doing that while people put their kids on their backs and take selfies. This was the issues facing a group of sea turtles in Costa Rica, ...

If you come across a clutch of eggs in the grass, you might have discovered snake eggs. Or perhaps turtle, turkey, or quail. The differences are easy to spot.

Every summer, as the sun sets over the shores of Palm Beach County, one of nature’s most awe-inspiring spectacles quietly unfolds in the sand. Sea turtles — greens, leatherbacks and loggerheads — ...

A couple of decades ago, in my herpetology class at the University of Georgia, we were discussing evolutionary ecology and someone asked the age-old question, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg ...

Fiona tells PEOPLE how her red-eared slider Izzie laying a single egg at nearly 40 felt “extra special,” even as the viral ...