Redang Island, Malaysia – Under a full moon, a bulbous creature emerges from the South China Sea onto a quiet beach on the Malaysian island of Redang. Watched closely by a team of volunteers, the ...

Prosthetic rubber fins have given a turtle injured in a shark attack a new lease of life. Yu, a loggerhead turtle, lost her front flippers in 2008, but is now enjoying her prosthetic fins, having ...

Bigger is better, if you're a leatherback sea turtle. For the first time, researchers have measured the forces that act on a swimming animal and the energy the animal must expend to move through the ...

That reaction is common among Buzzards Bay boaters startled to observe sea turtles swimming alongside their vessels, said Karen Dourdeville of Marion, coordinator of the Sea Turtle Sightings Hotline, ...

Eleven leatherback turtles are swimming across the Pacific Ocean to the Galapagos Islands in a "race" that will be tracked online to draw attention to the plight of the critically endangered creatures ...

After they emerge from their nests, baby sea turtles crawl towards the ocean and basically disappear for the next year or so as they drift thousands of kilometers with ocean currents. Eventually ...

Turbo enjoying time swimming around in the turtle pond and getting good meals and exercise.(Courtesy Humane Rescue Alliance) Turbo is a pretty female red-eared slider turtle. Turbo recently arrived at ...

MADISON, Wis. — Bigger is better, if you're a leatherback sea turtle. For the first time, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Florida Atlantic University (FAU), and the National ...