KERKENNAH, Tunisia – On a barge hundreds of metres off the Kerkennah Islands in southern Tunisia, a group of students watches intently as Besma, a recovering sea turtle, shuffles towards the ...

Aquarists Ryan Schmidt and Andrew Johnson measure a green sea turtle taken in by the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher following a cold-stunning event off the coast of North Carolina (Photo ...

European red foxes have become more aggressive at East Point in Mackay, and are digging up turtle eggs and biting hatchlings. Trapping methods have been unsuccessful so far, but will continue ...

The Texas State Aquarium announced Monday that 297 cold-stunned green sea turtles were brought into the Port of Corpus Christi Center for Wildlife Rescue between Friday and Sunday due to a recent ...

Each year from December to at least February, organizations like the Network for Endangered Sea Turtles and the North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island are busy caring for cold-stunned sea ...

At least 28 Olive Ridley sea turtle carcasses were discovered along the East Coast Road on January 12, following the death of nine turtles at Injambakkam the day before. Of the 28 carcasses ...

Per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, cold-stunning occurs when water temperatures drop below 50 degrees, which is too cold for sea turtles to maintain their body temperature.

Sea turtles can get attacked by sharks, become immobilized by cold weather and weakened by disease. More often, sea turtles collide with boats or get entangled in fishing gear. In 2023 ...

Measuring the heart rate of sea turtles is important for understanding their physiological adaptations to the environment. Non-invasive methods to measure the electrocardiogram (ECG) of sea turtles ...

Sea Turtle Inc., a South Padre-based organization dedicated to helping sea turtles through medical care, research and education, announced Saturday they have already rescued 190 turtles in the ...

Sea turtles discovered in December. Photo from N.E.S.T. 2016 was a historic year when it comes to cold-stunned sea turtle rescues, and it’s a benchmark that longtime N.E.S.T. (Network for Endangered ...

While it is widely understood that loggerheads depend on the Earth’s magnetic fields for navigation, researchers have so far been unsuccessful in elucidating how these tropical sea turtles ...