These aquatic reptiles swim thousands of miles across the open ocean to return to the same foraging grounds and nesting sites ...

Eight green sea turtles stunned by the cold during a rare snowfall in Florida have been released back into the Atlantic Ocean. (AP Video/Cody Jackson) ...

Discover how sea turtles navigate the ocean using their internal GPS and learn about their magnetic field perception.

Sea turtles have long mystified researchers by returning to beaches where they were hatched, magnetic signals may be the key, ...

Baby loggerhead turtles can identify specific ... in the dangerous—and often deadly—ocean ecosystem. “It’s very important for young sea turtles to outgrow predator mouths as quickly ...

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

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.

Eventually the GPS tags slough off because “the outside of a young turtle’s shell sheds as they grow very quickly,” said ...

In the ocean, successful foraging may prompt ... "We’ve had massive data gaps about the early baby to toddler life stages of sea turtles,” said Kate Mansfield, a marine scientist at the ...