Amidst the tide of plastic pollution, beached whales, and dwindling coral reefs, some good news has just come out of our oceans. Green turtles, an endangered marine turtle species named for the layer ...

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SANTA CRUZ — The number of leatherback turtles that feed in Central California waters has declined by 80% during the last two decades, according to new research out of the National Oceanic and ...

Along the massive and mountainous Bird’s Head Peninsula lies the long lonely beaches that support the largest remaining leatherback turtle in the Pacific Ocean. The beach is now being proposed as Abun ...

The massive 50-pound sea turtle has had quite the summer adventure. It was found stuck in a desalination plant in Morro Bay about a month ago, before heading out on a road trip with volunteers from ...

Scientists have found the first biofluorescent, or "glowing" reptile: the hawksbill sea turtle. Marine biologist David Gruber, of City University of New York, was filming fluorescent corals near the ...

When it comes to leatherback turtles, the world's largest species of sea turtle, there's a conundrum: The species itself is critically endangered, but at least one leatherback population is stable — ...

The massive 50-pound sea turtle has had quite the summer adventure. It was found stuck in a desalination plant in Morro Bay about a month ago, before heading out on a road trip with volunteers from ...

Marine biologists warn that the western Pacific leatherback could go extinct without immediate conservation measures and transnational cooperation. This subpopulation has decreased at a rate of 5.6% ...

I am going to send the kids off to school like the Aquarium of the Pacific recently returned a rescued sea turtle to the wild: a quiet walk to shore, a gentle push to the deep, and a quick wave of ...