Turtles make a wide variety of sounds. Researcher Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen recorded surprising vocalizations from 50 turtle species. Listen to 13 of these seldom-heard turtle sounds, from croaking and ...

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Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) are the most common nesting turtle here, although green, Kemp's ridley and ...

Camila Ferrara is an aquatic turtle specialist with the Brazil Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). This article is the second in a series celebrating the contributions of women to the ...

Florida’s sea turtles are grappling with a unique problem made worse by climate change: recent heat waves have caused the sand on some beaches to get so hot that nearly every turtle born was female.

BOA VISTA, Cape Verde - Warming temperatures resulting from climate change are having a dramatic and potentially devastating effect on sea turtle populations — as temperatures rise, so does the ...

“Too female” might not be a weakness any more, but there was a time when a female ninja turtle caused a crisis in the sewers. In 1998, the live-action television series Ninja Turtles: The Next ...

A new study has found that the waters off Cape Cod and the Islands are the most deadly for leatherback sea turtles across the entire East Coast where they are vulnerable to vessel strikes. The study, ...