Green sea turtles love to feed and nest in the shallow waters of Laguna Madre, a hypersaline lagoon and one of the seven major estuaries along the Texas coast from near Corpus Christi to South Padre ...

Leatherbacks are the largest turtles on Earth ... the longest migrations between breeding and feeding areas of any sea turtle, averaging 3,700 miles each way. After mating at sea, females come ...

and the Eastern Pacific green turtle, which has been found in coastal waters from Alaska to Chile. Weighing up to 700 pounds green turtles are among the largest sea turtles in the world.

This is a positive result for conservation efforts especially for the green turtle. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A 1-square-meter plastic sheet was found inside a dead leatherback sea turtle on a beach in Fukui Prefecture, the largest piece of plastic debris reported ingested by the species, researchers said ...

After we twice sued to compel a response from the National Marine Fisheries Service, in 2012 the agency granted the turtle 40,000 square miles of critical habitat off California, Oregon and Washington ...