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 ...

A fragile baby turtle found during a cleanup now has a safe place to grow. From building its enclosure to its first swim, ...

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'Go, turtles, go!': On Padre Island, endangered baby sea turtles take their first swim Newly hatched Kemp's ridley sea turtles are released on Malaquite Beach every summer.

Just taken this magnificent video of a whole bunch of baby sea turtles starting their epic journey out into the ocean for the first time. Mother nature, without a doubt, knows how to make magic ...

This robot can swim under the sand and dig itself out too, thanks to two front limbs that mimic the oversized flippers of turtle hatchlings. It’s the only robot that is able to travel in sand at ...

FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — A record number of sea turtle hatchlings are becoming disoriented on Fort Myers Beach this year, ...

More than 200 baby sea turtles arrived at the Brevard Zoo's Sea Turtle Healing Center in Florida, where they were being cared for in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian.

It was just us, Usher, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and, beneath a few feet of sand, thousands of baby turtles waiting for their first swim through the waves.

To say that these baby sea turtles’ journey into the water was epic and majestic is an understatement. Part of what makes their journey so incredible is how dangerous it is.

The zoo said that “major weather events like hurricanes can waylay baby sea turtles” caught in the storm or making their first swim into the ocean.