The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

Leatherbacks undertake the longest migrations between breeding and feeding areas of any sea turtle, averaging 3,700 miles each way. After mating at sea, females come ashore during the breeding ...

with 90 percent of China's sea turtle population found there. "Sea turtles have a unique habit — they return to the place where they were born to lay eggs when they reach adulthood," said Li ...

Turtle hospitals and aquariums across the country are caring for sea turtles that stranded on beaches during the winter season, which is now coming to a close amid an uptick in strandings along ...

Seminoff of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on a recent study, "Global [sea turtle] declines occurred due ...

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