From the 1800s through the 1950s, people clamored for the delicacy green turtle soup. Though the color describes the hue of the soup, one turtle commonly used for the dish – the Chelonia mydas – has ...

Scientists in Australia developed a program to save countless thousands of endangered green sea turtles from falling to their deaths while attempting to lay their eggs. Australia's Great Barrier Reef ...

Twenty cold-stunned juvenile green turtles rescued from the frigid waters off Florida’s east coast are receiving care at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium’s Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital.

Researchers examined the diet and plastic ingestion of green sea turtles inhabiting waters around the Ogasawara Islands, Japan, and detected plastics in 7 of the 10 individuals studied. By integrating ...