A green sea turtle is improving after being found stranded on a North Carolina beach with over 1 ½ pounds of barnacles and other organisms on its shell, seashore officials announced over the weekend.

There is a world of life on the backs of loggerhead sea turtles, and it's more abundant and diverse than scientists knew. An international team led by Florida State University researchers found that ...

In the dark, frigid months of winter, painted turtle hatchlings hunker down in shallow, icy nests where they enter a state of suspended animation. 1 Their hearts stop beating; their metabolisms slow ...

Plastic: It’s all over the ocean. And for sea turtles, it’s a killer. At least 1,000 die every year because they swallow plastic or get tangled up in it. So why do sea turtles run into plastic so ...

Scientists have identified a new ichnospecies from the shell of an extinct marine turtle fossil, the first known species coexisting on living marine vertebrates. While paleontologists have a wealth of ...

Researchers found that more than double the number of organisms than previously observed live on the shells of these oceanic reptiles, raising important questions about loggerhead sea turtle ecology ...