A tiny turtle who was rescued by the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, pooped plastic for six days. When he started to defecate, "No feces came out, just pure plastic." The WWF estimates half of all ...

NEW ORLEANS – The world’s smallest and most endangered sea turtle has made history on a tiny remote barrier island in Louisiana. For the first time in three-quarters of a century, Kemp’s ridley sea ...

Loggerhead sea turtles migrate thousands of miles through the world’s oceans, but they don’t travel solo—research shows they carry surprisingly diverse and abundant populations of tiny creatures on ...

BOCA RATON, Fla. (CBS12) — A newly born sea turtle is recovering in Boca Raton because of what experts found in its stomach. Queen Elizabeth, a Hawksbill sea turtle no bigger than the average hand, ...

A tiny turtle that washed up on a shoreline in South Florida is just the latest fatality of plastic pollution plaguing marine life. Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton posted a picture on Facebook ...

New research suggests that green turtle hatchlings ‘swim' to the surface of the sand, rather than ‘dig’, in the period between hatching and emergence. The findings have important implications for ...

On a recent bright morning in Holgate, 5-year-old Josie Davenport cupped her hands together and giggled as a teeny, tiny northern diamondback terrapin wriggled around. The baby turtle — only a couple ...

When baby sea turtles are born, within their first 24 hours they make the journey from nest to ocean. The trek should take a few minutes, but it sometimes lasts hours in urban settings where ...