STANFORD, Calif. (KGO) -- A few small Loggerhead sea turtles may not realize it, but they're setting off on a journey that could change the way we understand the Pacific Ocean. And perhaps, lead a ...

The ocean can be an extremely dangerous place, even for an animal that migrates through and rides its currents for decades. That’s why a single missing limb can spell disaster, despite an animal ...

When a hatching sea turtle first pokes its head above the sand and scrambles to the sea, a watching child might ask how the turtle knows where to go and how girl turtles know to come back one day to a ...

Turtles are able to grasp that the same object seen from different angles is not a different object, an important trait for ...

This loggerhead sea turtle washed ashore in Texas covered in layer of encrustation, including barnacles in its mouth, experts discovered. Gulf Center for Sea Turtle Research photo It’s common for slow ...

Brevard Zoo secured $1.75 million in federal funding for its new sea turtle care complex, part of the planned $140 million ...

Marine turtles are integral components of marine ecosystems and serve as valuable bioindicators of environmental change. Their health status, as revealed by a range of biochemical parameters, provides ...

Paleontologists discover possible DNA remains in fossil turtle that lived 6 million years ago in Panama, where continents collide Leila Nilipour Currently, only seven species of sea turtles exist.

Iowa State University professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology Nicole Valenzuela, right, holding an adult painted turtle inside her lab, with research scientist Itzel Sifuentes-Romero. A ...