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Over 500 baby sea turtles, mainly endangered loggerheads, have been rescued in Cape Town after a rare storm. The Turtle Conservation Center is rehabilitating around 400 turtles, while sending the rest ...

Sea turtles famously lay their eggs in nests on sandy beaches. And then a couple of months later, droves of tiny turtle hatchlings emerge from eggs that look a little bit like ping-pong balls, and ...

Two fossilized specimens, each less than 2.5 inches in length, were originally thought to be plants. Now, scientists say they are preserved hatchling turtles. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, ...

Researchers set out to catch baby turtles in the Gulf of Mexico to tag them and learn more about where they go when they scurry to the sea after hatching. Sea turtles famously lay their eggs in nests ...