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CHENNAI, India (AP) — For nearly four decades, residents in southern India's coastal city of Chennai have patrolled moonlit beaches at night trying to protect sea turtles and their hatchlings that for ...

Tons of sargassum seaweed have washed up on the Texas coast, bringing plenty with it, like creepy dolls and sea turtles.

This scene of the Leatherback sea turtle laying eggs in the sands of Satellite Beach was seen at 6:30 p.m. on the evening of April 7.

Anna Maria Island Turtle Watch and Shorebird Monitoring is preparing to start the 2025 sea turtle nesting season with turtle patrols beginning Tuesday.

Mystic Aquarium released 22 sea turtles back into the Atlantic Ocean Wednesday, April 9, in Jekyll Island, Georgia, according to a facility. The marine animals—14 green sea turtles, six ...

Sea turtles regularly shed tears as a way to expel ... which you can see under a microscope (shown in images below). Remarkably, those needles align the bacteria with Earth’s magnetic field ...

CHENNAI, India (AP) — For nearly four decades, residents in southern India's coastal city of Chennai have patrolled moonlit beaches at night trying to protect sea turtles and their hatchlings ...

When we picture sea turtles in the wild, it’s easy to envision them as armored warriors – their hard, resilient shells serving as near-impenetrable shields against oceanic threats like sharks. These ...

A turtle’s record-breaking migration is offering new clues into nesting behaviour and the future of India’s coastal ...

The idea of death in nature can change when a larger picture is taken into account. Now consider a deadly activity that’s taking place on some of Costa Rica’s wildest beaches. As olive ridley and ...