In this video, baby sea turtles dig themselves from the sand in which they were laid as eggs. However, their nesting spot was anything but random. Female sea turtles return to their birth location ...

"Warning bells go off in my head," said Kristen Mazzarella, Anna Maria Island's turtle watch director, of dunes that have been replaced by flat sand. These remarkable animals keep ocean ecosystems ...

So far, the group has raised sand levels to reduce flooding, installed fences to prevent turtles from being injured or killed on the rocks, and rescued over 700 trapped adult turtles at risk of ...

I find a tangle of black seaweed on the sand, lift a handful of ... The center keeps any turtle presumed dead for at least 24 hours. Over the years, Murley says, a few of these have revived.

Over the course of 10 years ... It’s tedious fieldwork: hours of slow driving, staring at the sand. Days — usually hot, windless ones — can go by without a single turtle sighting. (Kemp’s ridleys are ...

It’s a hot and windy May day on the Texas Coast, and Donna Shaver’s long ponytail, the color of sand, drips from underneath her ranger hat. She crouches down next to what looks like an imprint ...

Between April and mid-summer, hundreds of Kemp's ridley sea turtles will creep out of the waves and across the beach to nest at the base of sand dunes along the Texas coast. If this nesting season ...

Green sea turtles congregate near a dock in the Bahamas ... an adult female uses her front flippers to toss sand over her egg chamber, hiding her future offspring from predators.

The temperature of the sand around turtle eggs determines the sex of turtles with a warmer nest resulting in more females. Over 99% of juvinile green turtles born in the warmer northern nesting ...