Furthermore, turtles that forage nearby countries with a lower socio-economic status are likely to eat more plastic, as socio-economic status is related to waste management.

Even though World Sea Turtle Day is just one day, visitors are always welcome to see the patients and learn about them and their habits. Sea turtles are very important because they are a ...

Female green sea turtles collectively contain about 60 tons of plastic debris globally, with an individual averaging 26.4 g—roughly the mass of ten ping pong balls.

Scientists have found sea turtles are ingesting significant amounts of ocean plastics, with some carrying about the weight of 10 ping pong balls.

Researchers tracking tagged green sea turtles in the Red Sea were led to 34 previously unknown seagrass meadows. This ...

Sea turtles lay eggs on sandy beaches, but many of them never hatch. The incubating creatures may be killed by microbes, dug up by wild dogs, or exposed by other turtles scraping out new nests.

As of June 13, nearly 940 sea turtle nests had been identified along Georgia’s coast. One egg from each of those nests has been split open and emptied into a test tube. All that data contributes ...

Green sea turtles are the only type that is primarily herbivores, eating mostly seagrasses and algae. This diet is what gives their cartilage and fat a greenish color (not their shells), which is ...

After concerning dips in sea turtle populations between the 1960s and early 1990s, concerted conservation efforts by the Cooperative over the last few decades have helped restore turtle numbers.

In adulthood, Kemp's ridley sea turtles prefer to eat crabs. Leatherback sea turtle. Leatherback sea turtles are the largest turtle in the world. They grow to 5 to 6 feet long and 750 to 1,000 pounds.