Biology researchers from the College of Sciences’ UCF Marine Turtle Research Group studied the dispersal movements of four juvenile sea turtle species, revealing that they may be active swimmers, ...

All sea turtle species are threatened worldwide. They migrate long distances in the oceans—often thousands of kilometers—and so fall under multiple countries' laws and conservation targets. They also ...

Olive ridley sea turtles nested in California for the first time, raising questions about warm waters, nesting range, and ...

New research from Queen Mary University of London revealed troubling results: the warming climate is causing loggerhead sea turtles to nest earlier, disrupting their life cycles. According to a ...

Juvenile sea turtles are active swimmers! Video via EarthSky. Scientists have long thought that young sea turtles – after hatching on the shore and making their way into the ocean – drifted passively ...

The nesting season has ended in Mersin, southern Türkiye, a major breeding ground for endangered loggerhead (Caretta caretta) ...

Sea turtles return to the same nesting sites year after year to grow their populations, but rising global temperatures have disrupted this ancient cycle. New research has found that two sea turtle ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Sea turtles migrate across whole ocean basins; therefore, population assessments ...