A flatback sea turtle kicks up sand while digging a nest on Crab Island, off Australia’s northeast coast. Indigenous rangers with the Apudthama Land Trust brave saltwater crocodiles and other ...

Further to the legal implications, Tennant is warning that consuming turtle meat can have dire consequences. He pointed to a ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A police officer checks the carcass of one of the endangered olive ridley sea turtles that washed ashore on ...

One lot is in the Sleeping Turtles South protection site near the Myakka River; the second is off Lemon Bay Drive along ...

Per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, cold-stunning occurs when water temperatures drop below 50 degrees, which is too cold for sea turtles to maintain their body temperature.

According to the Turtle Conservation Society, most turtle species live from 10 to 80 years. But sea turtles and large land tortoises can live to be much older. Their lifespan can be 150 years or more.

More than 1,100 dead olive ridley turtles have washed ashore on the beaches of Tamil Nadu state in southern India this month. Most were found near the state capital, Chennai.

as well as in areas where access to warmer water is limited or obstructed by the surrounding land. Our area’s cold-stunned turtles are likely to pop up on the north and west ends of the Sound ...

Each sea turtle that arrives at the center is measured, weighed and given an identification number. The first 24 hours is spent on land, or “dry dock,” focused on warming the animals.

As their eggs need two months to hatch — like most sea turtle species — they're also threatened by increased land activity on beaches and coastlines, warmer temperatures and light pollution ...