Young sea turtles actively swim and choose their paths instead of drifting. New satellite tracking reveals their movements.

Challenges with tracking and data collection meant little was known previously about the lives of adolescent turtles ...

Loggerhead turtles “dance” when exposed to food-associated magnetic fields, and their magnetic map may help them return to specific areas after long migrations.

In a new study, biology researchers from the College of Sciences’ UCF Marine Turtle Research Group studied the dispersal ...

New research published Tuesday begins to fill in that gap. For over a decade, Mansfield and colleagues attached GPS tags to ...

Last week, rescuers pulled more than 40 small green sea turtles from offshore St. Augustine. Biologists drove many of those to the Tampa Bay area, where they’re warming up at the Florida ...

Turtles can be found anywhere, from local ponds and the deep, blue sea to an aquarium tank in your bedroom. These aquatic, semiaquatic or terrestrial creatures are easily recognized thanks to ...

As the audience cooed over the sea turtles and snapped photos and videos, staff and volunteers carried the marine reptiles down a path between two crowds, like a soul train line, to the sea.

She said the majority of turtles arriving at the Texas Sealife Center have not been injured, which is a positive sign. A small number were so cold that staff hadn't yet determined if they were ...

For over a decade, Mansfield and colleagues attached GPS tags to the fast-growing shells of young wild turtles. Steering small boats, they looked for young turtles drifting among algae in the Gulf ...