They outlived dinosaurs, have built-in GPS that helps them navigate the world’s oceans with ease, and intuitively know how to return to the beach of their birth to lay their own eggs for the next ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. All of sea turtles that hatched in Florida recorded this year were female, a turtle hospital said. Climate change is warming up ...

New research from Florida State University published in Frontiers in Marine Science found that extreme concentrations of microplastics could increase the temperature of beach sand enough to threaten ...

Many researchers have documented the lives of sea turtles. Videos like this one prove how lucky we are to witness the life cycle of this endangered species. A sea turtle’s fight for survival after ...

Just last week, we heard about a robotic baby sea turtle that can "swim" through the sand. It's not the only robo-turtle in town, though, as another one has been developed to possibly one day lead ...

A new study of Florida beaches has found high amounts of microplastics, which could increase sand temperature and produce more female hatchlings. This Kemps ridley sea turtle makes its way to the Gulf ...

Sand chosen to rebuild Palm Beach County’s beaches undergoes an extensive physical exam, from assessing the size of the grains to checking color and texture, but what about taking its temperature? A ...

When baby sea turtles hatch from their buried eggs, they use their powerful flippers to make their way up through the sand. A new "sand-swimming" robot, inspired by those hatchlings, could one day ...

Researchers conducted the first field study showing how endangered loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings use their limbs to move quickly on a variety of terrains in order to reach the ocean. Life can be ...

A turtle hospital in Florida said all the turtles they tested for the past four years have been female, a worrying trend it attributes to climate change. The temperature of the sand where the eggs are ...