There are many threats to sea turtles, but most of them come from humans. Dangers may range from getting entangled in fishing gear to losing their habitats from beach erosion and human development.

Rescued sea turtle at Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium overcomes buoyancy issues with a custom-designed weighted harness made by ...

This endangered sea turtle was found in rough shape on a Texas beach. What happened next is giving researchers hope.

When some turtles swim south in the fall, scores of them get trapped by Cape Cod, where many die of hypothermia. Herb Swanson Cape Cod Bay churns as a frigid gust flicks froth into the air and the ...

A green sea turtle in a horizontal underwater over-under shot with blue skies and fluffy clouds above, and the coral reef below.© J nel/Shutterstock.com A Saudi development project—NEOM—whose goal is ...

LAGOS (Reuters) -Plastic pollution, discarded fishing nets and coastal development are taking a heavy toll on Nigeria's sea turtles, say conservationists battling to save them. "We're seeing a drastic ...

A New Jersey woman who has made a lifelong hobby of saving trapped turtles from storm drains is passing the tradition on to her children. Now they are saving more generations of terrapins, according ...

DALYAN, Turkey (Reuters) - June Haimoff first stumbled across a loggerhead turtle on Turkey's southern coast more than 30 years ago. It was a chance encounter that changed her life and the future of ...

For turtles that call Haliburton Highlands home, survival is a numbers game with increasingly deadly odds. According to researchers with the Turtle Guardians, a program of The Land Between charity, a ...