Did you know that sea turtle hatchlings instinctively travel from their nests to the ocean? In a process called “sea finding,” these small creatures use natural light to find their way to the sea.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sea turtles return to the same nesting sites year after year to grow their populations, but rising global temperatures have ...

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Wildlife biologist Brittany Clemans explains how the NOAA uses shell etchings to track turtle migration and how fellow turtle ...

Sea turtles are the poster animal for plastics pollution in the ocean. There is a reason why they may be so susceptible to becoming caught up in plastic trash. In a new sea turtle behavior study, ...

Caught in an Atlantic hurricane, satellite-tagged loggerhead turtles changed their dive behavior and movement patterns as the storm passed. The tags also recorded changes in the environment. In early ...

Turtles, like most critters, instinctively avoid obstacles. Researchers have tapped into this instinct to steer a turtle without sticking probes into its brain or muscles, an achievement that could ...

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 ...

In early June 2011, NOAA Fisheries researchers and colleagues placed satellite tags on 26 loggerhead sea turtles in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. The tagging was part of ongoing studies of loggerhead ...