Being buried alive sounds like a nightmare, but it is just the beginning for green turtles. This turtle species starts its ...
Sea turtles are known to be majestic creatures that spend most of their lives in the ocean. However, there is one extraordinary event that occurs on land – the sea turtle egg laying process. This ...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter. In the middle of a steamy July night on the Wassaw Island beach, near Savannah, Georgia, volunteer Gabi Steinbach ...
Female sea turtles, known to swim thousands of miles before returning to their birthplace to lay eggs, find their way home by relying on unique magnetic signatures along the coast, a new study finds.
Experts are worried that global warming could interfere in the reproduction process of egg-laying reptiles such as turtles and crocodiles since the sex of their progeny is determined by temperature.