Ideally, researchers would follow turtles in the wild from egg to death to see how different conditions affect their development. But sea turtles take more than 10 years to mature and live for decades ...

The group found 34 sea turtle nests across Panama City ... which stopped nest development and washed out eggs. Eighteen nests experienced washover or washout from the storms.

and a number of turtle species are sought for their meat, fat, oil, eggs, skin or shells. Over many centuries, widespread and catastrophic levels of consumption has decimated global sea turtle ...