When baby sea turtles hatch from their buried eggs, they use their powerful flippers to make their way up through the sand. A new "sand-swimming" robot, inspired by those hatchlings, could one day ...

New research is revealing that baby sea turtles do not simply drift on ocean currents during their first epic journey.

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a remarkable sand-swimming robot inspired by the movements of baby sea turtles. This innovative robot is capable of traversing ...

After they emerge from their nests, baby sea turtles crawl towards the ocean and basically disappear for the next year or so as they drift thousands of kilometers with ocean currents. Eventually ...

Newly hatched loggerhead sea turtles (_Caterra caretta_) journey from their nest toward the ocean. Omer Kundakci/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Playing with my children on a beach on Hatteras Island, ...

This is the adorable moment dozens of baby sea turtles scrambled into the crystal clear sea. The hatchlings dashed into the ...

Newly hatched Kemp's ridley sea turtles are released on Malaquite Beach every summer. Hundreds of people gathered Friday to watch the spectacle. PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE — As the sun rose early ...

Earlier this month, the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW) and the Woodland Park Zoo got together to release around 40 juvenile northwestern pond turtles into the wild near Lakewood.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Four baby Eastern box turtles — a species with a plummeting population in Virginia — were recently hatched at the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center, including rare turtle twins ...

University of North Carolina scientists have found the strongest evidence yet that baby loggerhead turtles “read” the Earth’s magnetic field to help them navigate the massive clockwise current that ...

Almost 250 baby sea turtles have found temporary shelter at the Brevard Zoo’s Sea Turtle Healing Center after Hurricane Ian swept many back to shore on their way out to sea and some had their nest dug ...

It was a day full of surprises. When anglers Carter Andrews and Chase Cornell started drifting live crabs over a reef, they didn’t expect to pull up a mangrove snapper, let alone a 10-pound behemoth.