Green sea turtles are adjusting their nesting habits in response to rising global temperatures. Individual females are laying their eggs earlier in the season to cope with warmer conditions, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WBTW) — South Carolina’s loggerhead sea turtles are swimming to the Grand Strand’s shores, laying their eggs ...

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 ...

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 ...

1 in 1,000 turtle hatchlings are expected to survive after they're born. Sea turtles lay about 80 to 120 eggs. There are five Florida sea turtle species: Hawksbill, Kemp's ridley, Loggerhead, ...

JUNO BEACH – It’s turtle walk season, a time when people can witness one of the Atlantic Coast environment’s most remarkable moments: sea turtle nesting. Local residents and visitors in northern Palm ...

In the world of nature, June is a busy month filled with birth and egg-laying. We usually think of eggs as coming from birds. And rightly so, during this warm wet month. The migrants that stay with us ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 — ...